38 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



some of which were very important and instructive. This report embodies 

 the results of much field work ; containing much careful, honest labor 

 and establishing the author's reputation as a microscopic lithologist, 

 which was afterwards strengthened by further studies under Professor 

 Kosenbusch. Of the results achieved by Dr. Hawes in the examination 

 of the building stones of the country little can be said, as it was a work 

 of great magnitude, requiring a great deal of care and exertion for its 

 proper inauguration, and he had barely gotten the investigation into 

 good working condition when he was obliged to abandon its prosecu- 

 tion, much against his will. Personally, Dr. Hawes was a very pleasant 

 and genial man, and possessed a remarkable faculty of making warm 

 friends wheiever he went. Although his immediate family relatives 

 were few in number and widely scattered, his death was mourned by 

 a large number who had been won to him by the sterling qualities of his 

 character, his truth, purity, unselfishness, and earnestness. The writer 

 had the pleasure of being one of his first students in blowpiping and 

 also of being associated with him in his work upon the building stones, 

 and is abundantly able to speak of the nobleness of his character, and 

 thus to bear testimony to the warm regard in which he held him." 



Joseph B. Herron, a native of the State of Ohio, was born Au- 

 gust 7, 1839, at New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County. He was en- 

 gaged in the military service of his country at the period of the late 

 civil war, haviug enlisted in 1862, in the 98th Kegiment of Ohio Volun- 

 teers, at the age of 23 years. 



It was but a few months after his enrollment in the national defense 

 that he took part in the battle of Perry ville, Ky., on which occasion he 

 received a bullet wound through his body, the ball entering the chest 

 on the left side, passing through his lung obliquely, narrowly escaping 

 the heart, and out at his back on the right side of the spinal column, 

 near the right shoulder blade. He unfortunately lay on the battle-field 

 from Wednesday until Saturday before receiving any medical attendance. 

 From the effects of this severe and dangerous wound he never fully 

 recovered. He was, however, restored to a moderate degree of health 

 and strength, and was able to attend to light duties. 



In 1866, on the recommendation of General J. A. Garfield and Gen- 

 eral E. K. Eckley, he was appointed by Professor Henry janitor of the 

 Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, which position he held until 

 his death. He was always gentle and courteous in his deportment; and 

 though the injury to his lungs incapacitated him for exerting any 

 special activity, or any great physical effort, he was always punctual 

 and attentive to his duties. He was a member of the Society of the 

 ** Army of the Cumberland," and of the " Grand Army of the Eepublic." 

 He was one of the Guards of Honor to the remains of President Garfield 

 while they lay at the Capitol in Washington, and accompanied the 

 funeral of the deceased President from this city to Cleveland. In these 

 exertions he probably overtasked his strength ; for on returning to 



