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on the Museum and the head of the leading firm of music-dealers in 

 Pittsburgh, of whom she knew something. Mr. Mellor was so favor- 

 ably impressed that he at once, after conference with the Committee 

 on the Museum, recommended her appointment. This was at the 

 time of the inception of the work of the Museum, before a director 

 had been elected. She accepted the appointment and began her work 

 by aiding Mr. Mellor in attending to the correspondence. Thence- 

 forward from 1897 until the end came she was a member of the staff 

 of the Museum. She was a good linguist, capable of receiving dicta- 

 tion in French, German, and Spanish, as well as in English. She 

 possessed literary taste, and familiarized herself very soon with the 

 scientific nomenclature, which is necessarily largely employed in the 

 correspondence of a Museum. She was discreet and most loyal to her 

 friends and employers. All in all she was a rather remarkable woman 

 of high 'attainments and character, and her death deeply saddened the 

 circle of friends who immediately surrounded her. 



Though for many years not connected with the Carnegie Museum, 

 Dr. John Adolph Shafer was one of the earliest members of its staff, 

 and it is proper that record should be made of his death, which oc- 

 curred in the Sewickley Valley Hospital on February i, 191 8, in the 

 fifty-sixth year of his age, he having been born on February 23, 1863. 



Dr. Shafer was an enthusiastic field collector and one of the lead- 

 ing members of the Western Pennsylvania Botanical Society. He 

 had charge of the Herbarium of the Carnegie Museum from 1897 

 until 1904, when he received an appointment as a Custodian in the 

 New York Botanical Garden, a position which he held until 1910. 

 He made many journeys to the American tropics, both during and 

 after his appointment in New York, and cheerfully endured many 

 hardships in his pursuit of specimens. His death was probably the 

 result of an infection by some obscure disease contracted by him in 

 northern Argentina and Paraguay on the occasion of his last expe- 

 dition. 



While but little from his pen has been published, he is credited with 

 the discovery of many new plants. Two genera and twenty-five 

 species have been named after him by systematists. In the first vol- 

 ume of these Annals there was published " A Preliminary List of the 



