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his friendly spirit toward his work by electing him to honorary mem- 

 bership. This was done at the holiday meeting of two years ago ; but 

 disease had already laid its hand upon him and he was too weak to 

 acknowledge the receipt of the secretary's notice of his election. By 

 his death the cause of science and the cause of education both sus- 

 tained a great loss. His was a personality and character whose good 

 influence was impressed upon thousands of young lives in Michigan, 

 in Kansas, and in the whole country, and his early death was a cause 

 for sincere regret. 



DAVIS A. BOYLES. 



DAVIS A. BOYLES was born in Saline county, Kansas, August 

 17, 1872, and died at Salina, July 9, 1902. Most of his life 

 was spent in Salina and near that place. He was an enthusiastic 

 naturalist, and was a scholarly gentleman. He was a teacher in the 

 schools of Salina, and had at times acted as assistant to Prof. A. W. 

 Jones, at the Salina Wesley an University. He was married in May of 

 1902, and besides his young wife, he leaves a mother, father, and a 

 brother. He was elected an active member of the Kansas Academy 

 of Science at the McPherson meeting, December 29, 1899. 



