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ology of the ocean, its winds, currents and other phoe- 

 nomena. The list of careful, accurate and skillful observ- 

 ers who have made these additions is a just source of 

 pride to our nation, and among the names on this list 

 there is none whose position is more honorable than that 

 of Dr. Bean. Though his work has not been of a sort 

 to attract popular attention there is no one whose work 

 has been of greater scientific and practical value. 



Born in Bainbridge, Pennsylvania, he received the de- 

 gree of M. E. from the State Normal School at Millers- 

 ville, Pa., in 1866. While still a young man he moved to 

 Washington and became associated with the scientific 

 life of the Capitol. In 1876 he received the degree of 

 M. D. from Columbia (now George Washington) Uni- 

 versity, and in 1883 that of M. S. from the University 

 of Indiana, but his tastes ran more to science than to 

 the active practice of his profession. He became asso- 

 ciated with Professor Spencer F. Baird, the Assistant 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who was then 

 filling the newly created post of Commissioner of Fish 

 and Fisheries; Dr. Theodore N. Gill, the famous ichthy- 

 ologist; Dr. G. Browne Goode, with whom he was to be 

 affiliated in much of his future work, and the others 

 of that group who were making of the new Fish Com- 

 mission an institution which Professor T. H. Huxley said 

 could not be paralleled in the world. Under these in- 

 fluences the scientist that was to be was formed. In 

 1878 he was appointed Editor of the Proceedings and 

 Bulletins of the National Museum, and every scientific 

 student knows the value of these publications. In 1880 

 he became Curator of Fishes in the National Museum, 

 a position that he filled until 1895, when he resigned to 

 become Director of the Aquarium in New York. While 

 connected with the Museum he was also closely associated 

 with the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, editing the 

 Reports and Bulletins from 1889 to 1892, and being As- 

 sistant in Charge of the Division of Fish Culture from 

 1892 to 1895. He was the representative of the Fish 

 Commission in charge of its exhibit at the Chicago Ex- 



