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Henry White, diplomat, was born at Baltimore, Md., March 29, 

 1850. He received the degree of LL. D. from St. Andrew's Uni- 

 versity of Scotland, from Johns Hopkins University, and from Har- 

 vard University. He held various posts in the American diplomatic 

 service, and was appointed secretary of the embassy at London in 

 1897. This office he held until 1905, when he wa^ made American 

 ambassador to Italy, and two years later ambassador to France. 

 He represented the United States at a number of important confer- 

 ences, including the Fourth Pan American Conference at Buenos 

 Aires in 1910, when he acted as chairman of the American delega- 

 tion. In 1918-19 he was a member of the American commission to 

 negotiate peace, at Paris. Mr. White died on July 15, 1927. He 

 served on the Board of Regents from January 15, 1917, until the 

 time of his death. 



JOSEPH NELSON ROSE 



Joseph Nelson Rose, associate curator of botany in the National 

 Museum, died at his home in Washington, May 4, 1928. Born at 

 Liberty, Ind., in 1862, Doctor Rose received his education at Wabash 

 College. In 1888 he was appointed assistant botanist in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. When the National Herbarium was trans- 

 ferred from that department to the Smithsonian Institution in 1895, 

 Doctor Rose joined the Smithsonian's staff and here his botanical 

 work was done for the rest of his life. 



During his 40 years of original research Doctor Rose became a 

 recognized authority on certain difficult families of plants. Most of 

 his work was done under the Smithsonian Institution, but his well- 

 Icnown investigation of the cactus family w^as conducted under the 

 auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In the course 

 of this investigation he traveled extensively in the western United 

 States, Mexico, and South America, and the results were published 

 in four imposing volumes by the Carnegie Institution. 



The gift of the private herbarium and botanical library of Capt. 

 John Donnell Smith, of Baltimore, one of the most important ever 

 received by the Institution, was brought about largely through the 

 efforts of Doctor Rose. His published contributions to botanical 

 knowledge number over 100. 



IMMANUEL MOSES CASANOWICZ 



Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, assistant curator of the division of 

 Old World archeology in the National Museum, died September 26, 

 1927, at the age of 74. He was born at Zholudok, Russia, July 25, 

 1853, and studied at the University of Basle, Switzerland. Between 



