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display (>d by tlio Miisenmi, while a more extended account will apixnir 

 in the Smithsonian Report for 1899. 



Fan- American Expotiitton, Jhrfalo.—By act of Congress approved 

 March 8, 1899, the sum of $;300,()()0 has been appropriated for a Gov- 

 ernment exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition to be held at Buffalo 

 in 1901, besides an additional sum of $200,(»00 for the erection of a 

 building. .Dr. F. W. True, executive curator, has been designated 

 as the representative of the Smithsonian Institution and National 

 Museum on the Government })oard of management, and Mr. W. V. 

 Cox as chief special agent. 



Ohio Centennial Exjwsition. — An appropriation similar to that for 

 the Pan-American Exposition has also been made by Congress for a 

 Government exhibit and building at the Ohio Centennial Exposition, 

 to be held at Toledo in 1902 or 1908, as may be determined upon here- 

 after. This appropriation is contingent, however, upon a grant of 

 $500,000 to the Exposition by the Ohio State legislature and the rais- 

 ing of the same amount by subscription. 



Mention may here be made of the National Electric Light Exposi- 

 tion in New York City in 1899, where the ^Museum was represented 

 by a number of models of electrical apparatus belonging to the Henry 

 collection. 



NECROLOGY. 



Dr. Othniel Charles Marsh, Honorary Curator of the collection of 

 Vertebrate Fossils in the National Museum, died at his home in New 

 Haven, Connecticut, on March 18, 1899. Dr. Marsh had held the 

 position of professor of paleontology in Yale University since 1866. 

 He was born in Lockport, New York, in 1831. After ])eing gradu- 

 ated from Yale in 1860 he spent tive years in further study in the 

 Sheffield Scientific School and in Germany. His explorations of the 

 extensive fossil deposits of the AVest were begun in 1868. These led 

 him into wholly unknown fields, and the record of his work from the 

 time of his first connection as a professor with Yale University until 

 his death forms a most important part of the history of recent 

 progress in paleontological research. 



Many valuable works embodying the results of his investigations 

 hav^e been published, and others were left in an advanced stage. 



In 1876 Doctor Marsh was elected president of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, and in 1888 he became presi- 

 dent of the National Academy of Sciences, a position which he held 

 during two terms, or until 1895. He was connected with the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, as paleontologist, for many years. In 1877 a 

 medal was granted him by the Geological Society of London for 

 most distinguished researches in geology and paleontology. He was 



