Vol. XXVIII 



1911 J Notes and News. 149 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Charles Otis Whitman, a Member of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, and an eminent teacher and investigator, died at his home in 

 Chicago, of pneumonia, on December 6, 1910, at the age of 68 years. He 

 was born at Woodstock, Maine, December 14, 1842. He was graduated at 

 Bowdoin College in 1868, and received his A. M. degree from the same 

 college in 1871. Afterwards he studied abroad, receiving the degree of 

 Ph.D. from Leipzic University in 1878. In 1879 he was a Fellow at Johns 

 Hopkins University, and Professor of Zoology at the Imperial University 

 of Japan, 1880-81. He studied at the Naples Zoological Station in 1882, 

 and was later Assistant in Zoology at Harvard University (1883-85), 

 Director of the Allis Lake Laboratory (1886-89), Professor of Zoology at 

 Clark University (1889-92), and head of the Department of Zoology and 

 Curator of the Zoological Museum at the University of Chicago from 1892 

 till his decease. He was also Director of the Marine Biological Station 

 at W T oods Hole, Mass., from 1888 till 1908. 



Dr. W'hitman was a pioneer in developing modern methods of experi- 

 mental research in zoology, and a leader in this field. To his ability and 

 influence as a teacher and his resourcefulness in devising methods of 

 attacking difficult problems in evolution many of the younger school of 

 experimental biologists are greatly indebted for inspiration and guidance. 

 He was also the founder and for many years the editor of the 'Journal of 

 Morphology,' and was on the editorial staff of the 'Biological Bulletin' 

 and other kindred publications. The results of his investigations were 

 chiefly made known in his lectures on Biology (afterwards published) 

 and in special papers. Among the leading subjects that occupied his 

 attention are morphology, embryology, heredity, hybridization, and 

 animal behavior. He devoted much time to the study of the evolution of 

 color characters in Pigeons and to the natural history of this group of 

 birds. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1895, and 

 was also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of honorary degrees from 

 various universities. A man of unusually attractive personality, he leaves 

 a wide circle of friends to mourn his death, which is a heavy loss to science. 



Manly Hardy, a well-known naturalist, and for many years an Asso- 

 ciate Member of the American Ornithologist's Union, died at his home in 

 Brewer, Maine, December 9, 1910, at the age of 78 years and 28 days. 

 He was born in Hampden, Maine, November 11, 1832, an only son of 

 Jonathan T. Hardy. Four years later the family moved to Brewer, Maine, 

 and seven years later into the house on Wilson Street which has since been 

 the home of the family, and has become so well known to many students 

 of natural history through their visits to the subject of this biographical 

 notice. 



