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Dr. Richard Rathbun, a charter member of the Academy, died at 

 his home, 1622 Massachusetts Avenue, on July 16, 1918. Dr. Rath- 

 bun was born at Buffalo, New York, January 25, 1852. His earlier 

 years were spent in scientific work for the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, the Imperial Geological Commission of Brazil, the depart- 

 ment of zoology of Yale University, and the United States Fish Com- 

 mission. Since 1897 he had been Assistant Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and had been in charge of the National Museum 

 since 1899. His scientific publications were concerned chiefly with 

 Brazilian paleontology and the marine invertebrates and the fisheries 

 of the United States. Dr. Rathbun was a member of the Biological 

 Society of Washington, a past president of the Philosophical Society 

 of Washington, and a past president of the Cosmos Club. 



Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator of the Division of Plants, National 

 Museum, left Washington on July 22 for an extended trip of botanical 

 exploration through Ecuador, under the auspices of the U. S. National 

 Herbarium, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the New York 

 Botanical Garden, and the Gray Herbarium. His headquarters during 

 the summer will be at Huigra, and his address will be care of American 

 consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador. 



The Reverend George Mary Searle, C.S.P., superior general of the 

 Paulist Fathers from 1904 to 1909, and formerly professor of mathe- 

 matics and director of the astronomical observatory at the Catholic 

 University, died on July 8, 1918, at the age of seventy-nine. He was 

 born in London, England, June 27, 1839, graduated from Harvard 

 University in 1857, and was connected at various times with the 

 Dudley and the Harvard College Observatories, the U. S. Naval Acad- 

 emy, and the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He was a member 

 of the Philosophical Society of Washington, and had been for many 

 years a member of the Academy, from which he had resigned but a few 

 months ago. 



Dr. W. F. G. SwANN left the Bureau of Standards on August 1, 1918, 

 to take up his new work as professor of physics at the University of 

 Minnesota. 



Dr. Walter T. Taggart, professor of organic chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, is engaged in war research for the Nitrate 

 Division in Washington. 



Prof. A. Tanakadate, professor of physics in the University of 

 Tokyo, and member of the Imperial Academy of Science, visited Wash- 

 ington in July on business connected with certain international scien- 

 tific commissions whose activity has been interfered with by the war. . 



Dr. William S. Thayer, of Baltimore, was elected a foreign member 

 of the Academie de Medicine of Paris on July 2, 1918. 



