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NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Oliver Marcy, Dean of Northwestern University Evanston, III., 

 and an Associate Member of the A. O. 17., died at Evanston, 111., March 

 19, 1899, at the age of 79 years. lie was born at Colerain, Mass., on 

 February 13, 1S20, and was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1844. 

 He taught natural science at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., 

 for many years, and in 1862 became professor of natural history in the 

 Northwestern University, which position he held until his death. From 

 1S76 until the election of Dr. Joseph Cummings as president, in 1881, he 

 was acting president of the University, and after this date was the Dean. 

 In 1876 the University of Chicago conferred on him the degree of 

 LL. D. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a 

 member of many other scientific bodies. In 1S66 he was geologist on 

 the Government Survey for a military road from Lewistown, Idaho, to 

 Virginia City, Montana. Dr. Marc\', though an authority in several 

 branches of sciences, was more especially a geologist, and the author of 

 various geological papers, though his college duties gave him little time 

 for original research. His genial and sympathetic nature always won 

 for him the respect and affection of his students. 



Professor Othniel Charles Marsh, of Yale University, died at 

 New Haven, March 18, in the 68th year of his age. He was born at 

 Lockport, New York, in 1831, and was graduated at Yale in 1S60. He 

 subsequently studied several years under leading specialists in Europe, 

 returning to New Haven in 1866, where he has since occupied the chair 

 of Palaeontology. He has long been recognized throughout the world as 

 one of the leading authorities in vertebrate palaeontology. His explora- 

 tions in various parts of the West for fossil vertebrates began in 1868, 

 and in subsequent years he amassed the immense collections which have 

 been so long famous. The results of his investigations have been pub. 

 lished in a long series of papers and memoirs, numbering nearly three 

 hundred titles, covering a period of more than twenty-five years. His 

 unrivalled collections of fossils, as yet only partly worked up, he pre- 

 sented to Yale University, with a considerable endowment for carrying 

 on and publishing the results of further investigation of this great mass 

 of material. Professor Marsh is well known to ornithologists for his 

 numerous publications on fossil North American birds, including his 

 great quarto memoir ' Odontornithes : a Monograph of the Extinct 

 Toothed Birds of North America,' published in 1880. Probably five- 

 sixths of the known extinct North American birds have been described 

 by Professor Marsh. His scientific work brought him many honors 

 both at home and abroad. In 187S he was chosen President of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, and from 1883 

 to 1896 he was President of the National Academy of Sciences. 



