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International Zoological Congress, held at Berlin. (Terniany, begin- 

 ning on August J 2. A brief account of the congress by Mr. Stejneger 

 will be found in Appendix VI. 



A list of the members of the Museum staff is given in Appendix I. 



NECROLOGY. 



Dr. Tiiomas Wilson. Curator of the Division of Prehistoric Arche- 

 ology in the National Museum, died on ^lay 4, 1'.HI2. He was born 

 in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on July is, 1S32. 

 H(^ li\'ed for a time in Ohio. Illinois, and Missouri, and later in Iowa, 

 enlisting in the Second Iowa Cavalry at the beginning of the civil war. 

 He served in the cavalry and infantrv ])ranches of the sei'vice until 

 1864 and was mustered out with tin; rank of colonel. For a number 

 of 3'ears he was engaged in the practice of law, from which he retired 

 in 1881 to enter the consular service of the United States. He rei)re- 

 sented this country at Ghent, Nantes, and Nice. His service as consul 

 extended over a period of tivo 3'ears, after which he spent two years in 

 traveling. 



During his residence a])road Dr. Wilson devoted a great deal of 

 attention to the study of archeology, visited many of the localities 

 where ancient treasures were to be found, and had opportunitiivs for 

 meeting and working with several of th(; noted anthrop<jlogists of 

 Europe. After returning to this country, ho was placed in charge of 

 the Division of Prehistoric Archeology in the U. S. National Museum, 

 which position he held from 1880 to the time of his death. He was a 

 mendjer of the Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, the Societe d'Arch- 

 eologie de Nantes, the Anthropological Institute of (Ireat I^ritain and 

 Ireland, the Order of Isal)ella of Spain, and the Order of Leopold; also 

 vice-president of the Anthropological Society of Washington, a fellow 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Scien(<\ a mem- 

 ber of the American Oriental Societ}' and of the Military Order of the 

 Loval Legion. Dr. Wilson was a member of the Commission to the 

 Madrid Exposition of 1803, and of the Commission to the Brussels 

 Exposition in 1807, and a delegate to the International Congi'ess of 

 Archeology in Paris in lO(»0. 



Some of the important papers })ul)lished by Dr. \\'ilson are as 

 follows: The Swastika, the earliest known Symbol, and its Migra- 

 ,tions, with Observations on the Migration of certain Industries in pre- 

 historic Times; Prehistoric Art, or the Origin of Art as manifested 

 in the Work of Prehistoric Man; Arrowpoints, Spearheads, and 

 Knives of Prehistoric Times; The Golden Patera of Rennes; A 

 Study of Prehistoric Anthropology; and Anthropology at the Paris 

 Exposition. 



Mr. Charles T. Mohr, a generous benefactor of the National Museum, 

 was born in Esslingen, Wurtemberg, December 28, 1824, and died at 

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