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His relinquishment of active professional work was probably due 

 to a consciousness of failing vigor, but the gravity of his condition 

 was not manifest until December 26, 1896, when he was stricken 

 with unconsciousness while engaged in playing a game of cards with 

 some friends at the Columbia Club. Although he partially rallied 

 from the attack and was able to attend the Nansen meeting in the 

 rooms of the American Philosophical Society, his work was done 

 and the interval was one of patient waiting for the end. Among 

 his few relaxations during his later years, had been those enjoyed as 

 a member of a fishing club which occupied a comfortable house at 

 Beesley's Point, N. J. He took an active part in the management of 

 the establishment, and the last months of his life were spent there, 

 until a renewed attack of cerebral hemorrhage terminated in death, 

 November 24th of the present year. 



The loss sustained by the Academy in the death of Drs. Horn 

 and Allen is the most recent of a disastrous series beginning in 1891 

 with that of Dr. Joseph Leidy, and immediately preceded early 

 in the present year by that of the brilliant naturalist, Edward D. 

 Cope. The effect of such subtraction from the membership of the 

 society must be acutely felt, but the work of these distinguished 

 men lives after them, and we may be consoled by the hope that the 

 influences which formed them, and which in no small measure 

 emanated from this Academy, may continue to produce worthy 

 successors who will be sustained and encouraged by the unselfish 

 devotion to the cause of intellectual advancement of those who have 

 gone before. 



DR. ALLEN'S ZOOLOGICAL WORK. 



BY SAMUEL N. RHOADS. 



So far as we have any record, Dr. Harrison Allen's first and last 

 papers on zoological subjects, as well as his last verbal communica- 

 tion before a scientific body, were originally presented in this Acad- 

 emy. Of seventy contributions to science, accessible to the author, 

 fully one-half were first issued in the publications of this society. 



In systematic zoological work Dr. Allen's publications number 

 about thirty; in comparative anatomy, forty; those exclusively 

 relating to Man number seven, while eight relate largely to the 

 special subject of animal locomotion. With the exception of about 

 ten of the seventy titles attributed to him, his papers are in the 



