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Dr. James Dudley Morgan, one of the early members of the Acad- 

 emy, died at his home at Chevy Chase, Maryland, on November 21, 

 1919, in his fifty-eighth year. Dr. Morgan was born in Washington 

 July 5, 1862. He spent most of his life in the practice of medicine in 

 Washington, being connected at the same time with the Medical School 

 of George Washington University, Garfield Hospital, and Emergency 

 Hospital. In addition to his memberships in the medical societies, 

 he was a member of the Columbia Historical Society, of which he was 

 president from 1909 to 191 6, and became a member of the Academy 

 in 1903. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 has been elected an associate member of the Academic des Sciences, 

 Paris. 



Mr. Ferdinand Westdahl, hydrographic and geodetic engineer in 

 the Coast and Geodetic Survey, died at San Francisco, California, on 

 October 25, 191 9, in his seventy-seventh year. Mr. Westdahl was born 

 at Wisby, Sweden, January 20, 1843. He entered the Survey as an 

 aid in 1867, having been employed previously by the V/estern Union 

 Telegraph Company, Russian extension, as first mate of the bark 

 GoLen Gate. At that time he had served on board sailing ships in 

 every capacity from boy to ordinary seaman, able seaman, second and 

 first mate, and sailing master. He was the oldest ofiicer and next to 

 the oldest in point of service in the Survey. His work was chiefly 

 in hydrography along the Pacific Coast, in Alaska, and in the Philippine 

 Islands. 



