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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Photograph by Gutekimst. 



George Frederick Barker. 



803.501, an increase of a million and a 

 quarter in a single year, and probably 

 a larger number of persons than vis- 

 ited any other institution in the world 

 for scientific entertainment and in- 

 struction. There were no increases in i 

 the collections, as there is no room for 

 them. The director very properly 

 urges the desirability of enlarging the 

 aquarium and providing laboratories 

 for scientific work and men to carry it 

 forward. 



DEATHS AMONG AMERICAN MEN 

 OF SCIENCE 



Since the death of Mr. Alexander 

 Agassiz, in April, we have lost three 

 other American scientific men officially 

 placed among the hundred who are 

 most eminent by their membership in 

 the National Academy of Sciences. 

 They are Professor George Frederick 

 Barker, General Cyrus Ballou Coni- 

 stock and Dr. Charles Abiathar White. 



Professor Barker, who was both a 



