72 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 
The numerous articles, reports, and monographs in which Dr. White 
recorded the principal scientific results of his official work are char- 
acterized by a clear, simple style which never permits any doubt of 
the author’s meaning or of his honesty of purpose. An annotated 
bibliography of his writings was published by the National Museum in 
Bulletin 30, and a supplement in volume 20 of the Proceedings 
brought it down to 1897 with a total of 211 entries. After retiring 
from active work he continued to publish occasional articles on 
general biological topics until the last year of his life. 
During all the years of Dr. White’s service with the various Govern- 
ment surveys his office work was done in the National Museum, where 
he was actively connected with the care and preservation of the 
collection of invertebrate fossils to which his field work so largely 
contributed. He came to the Institution at a critical period in the 
history of its paleontologic collections. Prof. F. B. Meek, who 
long had charge of them had recently died and new material was 
rapidly coming in from the various surveys and exploring expeditions 
in the western Territories. Dr. White immediately took up the 
work of properly caring for the collections, at first unofficially and 
afterward as curator. His intimate acquaintance with Prof. Meek 
and his work, his knowledge of the subject and his systematic, pains- 
taking habits enabled him to render invaluable service at that time. 
Scattered types were recognized, catalogued and fully labeled, those 
that had not been illustrated were figured, and the records and 
collections of the whole department were systematized. After retiring 
from the active duties of a curatorship he continued his connection 
with the National Museum as an associate. Dr. White was a member 
of the National Academy of Sciences and of many important scientific 
societies both in this country and in Europe. 
