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Announcement of his death l)rought expressions of regret for the loss 

 sustained and of admiration of his character from many citizens. News- 

 papers published sketches of his career and praised his works and ways. 



The Alumni Society of the Medical Department of the University of 

 Pennsylvania held its annual meeting in the evening of the same day. The 

 President, Dr. Alfred Stille, officially announced that Dr. Leidy had died 

 in the morning, and said, among other things, that by the death of Dr. 

 Leidy the University "looses the profoundest and most consummate teacher 

 that ever held the Chair of Anatomy, and whose fame as a comparative 

 anatomist, paleontologist, geologist, zoologist and botanist was not 

 bounded by his native city or country, but w^as coextensive with the 

 civilized world. 



" No man, who had such reason to be proud, was ever more humble. 

 His simple and amiable manners attached to him the old as well as the 

 young, and made him revered in the gravest circles of the learned and 

 loved by the students, whom he inspired by his example and enriched by 

 Lis knowledge." 



The Wagner Free Institute of Science recorded 'its sense of loss in a 

 minute, as follows : 



"With feelings of deep sorrow we record the death of Dr. Joseph 

 Leidy, who, for the past six years has stood at the head of the science 

 work of our Institute as President of the Faculty and Director of the 

 Museum. 



"The death of this true and honest man, as gentle as he was strong, as 

 humble as he was great, is to the whole civilized world, as it is to our own 

 country, the loss of one of the most distinguished scientists of the day ; 

 while to Philadelphia, the city of his birth and lifelong home, it is the 

 loss, not only of one of her greatest men, but as well of a true and faith- 

 ful son, who loyally spent his whole life in her service, and who died, as 

 he lived, in entire devotion to duty, wholly forgetful of himself, and mind- 

 ful of the welfare of others. 



"To the Wagner Free Institute of Science the loss occasioned by his 

 •death is beyond repair. The place he has left vacant cannot be filled. 

 To him, more than any other man, and to his good guidance more than 

 anything else, is due whatever has been accomplished by the Institute 

 since the death of its founder, in the organization and conduct of its work 

 in the cause of science. It is impossible to express in words the debt of 

 gratitude we owe to him ; only by deeds can we give expression to it, by 

 striving to carry out the work which he has planned for us with such 

 consummate skill, that it may become a living memorial of his earnest 

 labors, his broad intelligence and his commanding knowledge." 



And in the first paragraph of his Valedictory Address to the graduating 

 classes in medicine and dentistry of the University, delivered at the 

 annual commencement, May 1, 1891, Prof. James Tyson said : "The ink 

 was scarcely dry on my page when came the intelligence that Joseph 

 Leidy was seriously ill, and close on this fact of his death. This most 



