Appendix 37 



Resolution of the Executive Committee 

 OF THE Long Island Biological Association 



The following resolution was adopted and sent to Mrs. Dean : 



The Executive Committee of the Long Island Biological Association have learned, with deep regret 

 of the death of Dr. Bashford Dean. Dr. Dean was the first director of the Biological Laboratory and it 

 was due directly to his interest that the Laboratory received a firm foundation, through the gift of John 

 D. Jones of a building and lands. The noteworthy development of the Laboratory is largely due to the 

 vigor of the germ that Dean planted and nourished. So long as the Laboratory persists his memory will be 

 cherished by it. 



The Executive Committee of the Long Island Biological Association desire to express to you their 

 sympathy in your bereavement. 

 December 8, 1928. 



A Memori.'^l Minute Adopted by the Council 

 OF THE New York Academy of Sciences 



Dr. Bashford Dean who died at Battle Creek, Michigan, on December 6, 1928, at the age of 61 years 

 was an active member of the Academy for forty years and served it with distinction in many directions. He 

 was elected a fellow of the Academy in 1889 while he was a student and assistant of Professor J. S. Newberry 

 in the department of geology at Columbia College. Altho then only 22 years old he had already published 

 several valuable papers on the food of the oyster, on the supposed fish-eating plant Utricularia and on the 

 animals and the plants of the Long Island lakes. Under Prof. John S. Newberry's stimulating influence he 

 took up the study of the American Palaeozoic fishes with great enthusiasm and ability; from 1891 to 1909 

 he published a long and brilliant series of papers dealing chiefly with the arthrodira or joint-necked forms, 

 with the cladodont sharks and with other early fishes and fish-like vertebrates. Of these papers some 15 

 appeared in the Transactions and Memoirs of the Academy, the rest mostly in the Bulletins and Memoirs 

 of the Museum. He was also the author of many important papers on the embryology of the living ganoids, 

 cyclostomes, sharks, and chimaeroids. Doctor Dean was thrice elected curator of the Academy's collections. 

 At various times he served as Librarian, Councillor, Chairman of the Section of Biology, Vice-President of 

 the Academy, and Member of the Finance Committee. He was Professor of Zoology at Columbia College, 

 Curator of the Department of Reptiles and Fishes at the American Museum of Natural History, and Curator 

 of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the World War he served as Major in 

 the Ordnance Department, designing helmets and other special armor for trench warfare. In search of the 

 early developmental stages of the hagfishes and sharks he made many journeys in the field in Alaska, Cali- 

 fornia, Japan, Norway, Russia, Italy, Portugal, and elsewhere. While in the pursuit of mediaeval armor he 

 many times ranged over Europe ransacking every remote corner where armor was to be found. A few years 

 ago he conducted archaeological investigations in Syria and recovered there much valuable data concerning 

 the life of the Knights Templars in their wars for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre from the Saracens. He 

 applied to the study of arms and armor the view-point and methods of palaeontology and was thus enabled to 

 throw a flood of light upon the historical development of helmets, pole arms, and armor. Not the least of his 

 achievements was the publication, with the collaboration of several colleagues, of a great Bibliography of 

 Fishes in three volumes. 



In spite of his vast and multifarious activities, pursued at high tension, under the handicap of a delicate 

 digestive system, his work never bears the traces of haste or immaturity. Even his youthful writings carry 

 the conviction of well seasoned judgments, and an exceptionally broad outlook, and were fortified by great 

 reserves of de.tailed knowledge and skill in many branches of science and art. 



Members of this Academy who had the privilege of knowing him well will recall with gratitude and 

 satisfaction Dean's ever friendly and sustained interest in their interests and problems. Friendliness and 



