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His sadden death, however, has cut short a career of the greatest 

 promise. When news came to Marietta that he was drowned at the head 

 of Kerr Ish\nd in the Ohio, just below the dam on the West Virginia side, 

 there was great excitement; several boats started immediately for the 

 scene of the accident and later a large company started for the place in a 

 chartered steamboat. It was the old story of a treacherous hole in the 

 river-bottom, inability to swim, and no one near to help. The remains 

 were taken to T-akoma Park, D. C. by Professor David H. Jones, Associ- 

 ate Principal of Marietta Academy. They were laid at rest beside the 

 grave of his mother in the Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington. The 

 Trustees and the Faculty of the College join with the large circle of friends 

 in expressions of deepest sympathy with Dr. Shufeldt and his family. 

 The College hopes by the aid of friends to make 'The Shufeldt Collection' 

 an enduring monument to the brilliant young ornithologist. 



Robert W. Shufeldt, Jr., was born on the 7th of June, 1877, at Omaha, 

 Nebraska. He received his scientific training from his father, Dr. R. W. 

 Shufeldt, who is well known to the scientific world as a specialist in orni- 

 thology. What is the loss of Dr. Shufeldt is the common loss of us all 

 and especially of American science in the years to come. 



Very respectfully yours, 



Henry Woodward Hulbert. 



Marietta College, July 20, iSg2. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Hermann Burmeister, a Corresponding Member of the A. O.U., 

 died at Buenos Ayres May i, 1891, in his eighty-sixth year, he having 

 been born at Stralsund, Germany, Jan. 15, 1807. He was educated at 

 Greifswald and Halle, and for a time was professor of zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of Halle, succeeding the ornithologist Nitzsch. He was a promi- 

 nent actor, siding with the 'Liberals,' in the political troubles of 1849-50. 

 and in consequence was obliged to leave Germany. He traveled for some 

 time in Brazil, and though visiting Europe for short intervals on two or 

 three occasions, spent most of his life in South America. He finally settled 

 in Buenos Ayres, where he founded the well-known National Museum of 

 Natural History, of which he was made Director in 186 1, and in 1870 became 

 the head of the faculty of science in the University of Cordoba. His writ- 

 ings cover a wide field, his earlier work relating mainly to entomology, but 

 later he wrote many papers and works pertaining to physical geography 

 and vertebrate palaeontology and zoology. Some years since he met with 

 an accident which made it necessary for him to resign his position as Di- 

 rector, "and the community, by which his services were highly appreci- 

 ated, took care that he was properly pensioned. He was buried at the cost 

 of the State, and the President was present at his funeral." 



Dr. Burmeister was the editor of Nitzsch's 'Pterolographie,' published in 

 1840, and was the author of a 'Systemalische Uebersichte der Thiere Bra- 



