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OBITUARY. 



ROBERT EDWARD EARLL. 



Born at Waukegan, III., Aug. 24, 1853. Died at Washington, 

 March 18, 1896. 



THE Smithsonian Institution loses an old and trusted member of 

 its staff by the death of Mr. Earll, who had been connected with 

 it since 1877. Educated in the Waukegan public schools, and later 

 at Chicago and the North Western University, Mr. Earll, after serving 

 on the Fish Commission as a fish culturist, became in 1885 Chief of 

 the Division of Statistics of that body, and was sent, in 1883, to the 

 International Fisheries Exhibition in London, as a member of the 

 Staff of the U.S. Commission. The aptitude he showed for this work 

 led to his being appointed chief executive officer at subsequent exhibi- 

 tions at Louisville, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Atlanta, 

 for the exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution and the National 

 Museum. Since 1888 he had been Curator of the National Museum, 

 and editor of its Proceedings and Bulletins. Himself a skilful fish cul- 

 turist, and an authority upon the natural history of the shad and 

 herring, he made exhaustive studies of the fishery statistics of the 

 Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, and of the Great Lakes, and took part in 

 the early experimental work on the propagation of the shad, and in 

 the establishment of the cod-hatching station at Gloucester. 



Our information is gleaned from a notice in Science by Dr. G. 

 Brown Goode. 



WILLIAM SHARP, M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Born at Bradford, 1805. Died at Llandudno, April, 1896. 



r PO this eminent man has been ascribed the introduction of natural 

 1 science into the curriculum of our public schools. The Sharp 

 family, which included Archbishop Sharp and Abraham Sharp, the 

 astronomer, had been settled for many generations in the Bradford 

 district, and the deceased, after studying in London and in Paris,, 

 returned to Bradford in 1828, and succeeded to the lucrative practice 

 of his uncle in that town, becoming also senior surgeon of the 

 infirmary in 1837. In 1843, he resigned his practice and went to 

 Hull, where he gave lectures on chemistry during the winters ; but 

 four years later he removed to Rugby for the purpose of placing his 

 sons under Dr. (afterwards Archbishop) Tait, then headmaster of 



