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ing through the various grades until he reached that of Medical 

 Director in 1897, and on his retirement, owing to service in the 

 Civil War, receiving the additional rank of Rear- Admiral. 



During the years 1884 to 1889 he was assigned to duty with the 

 U. S. Fish Commission and coming under the influence of Dr. G. 

 Brown Goode, he was led to study of Foraminifera and in order 

 that the results of his investigations might be properly studied and 

 be given to the world, he was assigned to the National Museum as 

 curator in charge of the division of medicine during the three dif- 

 ferent periods of shore duty. 



These years were fruitful of good work well done, both in the way 

 of organizing, collecting, and installing the collections in the division 

 of which he had charge, and also in the study of that group in 

 natural history with which his name will always be honorably 

 connected. 



To the literature of science he contributed " Recent Foraminifera : 

 A descrijitive catalogue of specimens dredged by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission steamer Albatross'''' (1899), and "A Contribution to 

 the Oceanography of the Pacific" (1905) compiled from data col- 

 lected by the U. S. Steamer Nei^'o while engaged in the survey of 

 a route for a trans-Pacific cable, both of wliich were published by 

 the U. S, National Museum. 



After his retirement from active duty in the Navy he continued 

 his connection with the Museum for some years as honorary cura- 

 tor, but only as failing health came to him was he willing to re- 

 linquish the duties of his work to accejJt the honorary relation of 

 associate in medicine. 



Doctor Flint was a member of the Metropolitan, Cosmos, Army 

 and Navy, and Chevy Chase Clubs, and testified to the fighting 

 qualities of his New England ancestors by membership in the 

 societies of Colonial Wars and Sons of the American Revolution, 

 while in his own right he was a member of the Loyal Legion. 

 ' After a lingering illness, he died in Washington City on November 

 21, 1919. 



Mr. Stephen C. Brown died at his home in Washington, on July 

 11, 1919, after 43 years of service to the Museum. Mr. Brown was 

 born at Danville, N. Y.,' October 19, 1844. He enlisted in Company 

 B, 136th New York Volunteer Infantry, earlj'^ in the Civil War and 

 served until its close. For some years thereafter, he resided in 

 Cleveland, Ohio, but joined the Smithsonian staff at the time of the 

 preparation of the Government exhibition at the Philadelphia Cen- 

 tennial in 1876. At the close of this work he was appointed an assist- 

 ant to Dr. H. C. Yarrow, who was in charge of the division of rep- 

 tiles; and in 1886 was made registrar for the National Museum, a 

 position which he continued to hold with unexcelled efficiency to 



