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the American Ornithological Union and the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. Of the last he was president in 

 1897. He was also one of the ten founders of the Cosmos Club of 

 Washington. 



Dr. Gill, though one of the most profoundly learned men of his 

 time, was characterized by innate modesty and gentleness, lacking 

 personal vanity and ostentation. 



Dr. Albert Charles Peale, aid in charge of the paleobotanical col- 

 lections in the National Museum, died in Philadelphia on December 

 6, 1914, in his sixty-sixth year. Dr. Peale was born at Hecksherville, 

 Pa., on April 1, 1849. He was trained as a physician, receiving his 

 degree of doctor of medicine from the Medical School of Pennsyl- 

 A^ania in 1871, but never practiced the profession. In this same year 

 he became connected with the U. S. Geological and Geographical 

 Surveys of the Territories under Dr. F. V. Hayden, continuing with 

 that organization until the consolidation of the various independent 

 surveys into the U. S. Geological Survey under Dr. Clarence King, 

 of which he also was a member until 1898. Shortly after the latter 

 date he was appointed to the staff of the National Museum, where 

 he remained until the time of his death. 



Dr. Peale was a faithful and conscientious worker, and was in 

 close touch with Dr. Hayden, having his confidence in geological and 

 official affairs throughout his entire administration. He was a man 

 of remarkable memory for detail, and could recall with surprising 

 accuracy observations made many years before. Wliile with the 

 newly organized Survey, under Maj. Powell, he prepared for pub- 

 lication the manuscript of the Three Forks Folio of Montana, the 

 first of the new Geologic xVtlas series to be submitted but not the 

 first to be issued. It is no exaggeration to state that this work com- 

 pares favorably with any done before or since, and remains a worthy 

 illustration of his painstaking accuracy. For many years Dr. Peale 

 was the official authority on mineral waters, a subject in which he 

 first became prominent in comiection with his work on the thermal 

 springs of the Yellowstone N ational Park. He was a member of the 

 American Chemical Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, the Philosophical, Geological and Chemical Societies 

 of Washington, the National Geographic Society, and the Society 

 of Colonial Wars. 



