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Commissioners, he devoted his leisure to col- 

 lecting an herbarium, and served on a com- 

 mittee to report on the subject of a geological 

 survey of the State of Ohio. In 1836 he re- 

 moved to Milwaukee, Wis., where he began 

 his career as author. In 1844 he published 

 " Wisconsin : Its Geography and Topography, 

 History, Geology, and Mineralogy," and, in 

 1855, a geological map of Wisconsin, com- 

 piled in great measure from personal obser- 

 vations. In the same year appeared his "An- 

 tiquities of Wisconsin," published in the sev- 

 enth volume of the Smithsonian "Contribu- 

 tions to Knowledge," the result of investiga- 

 tions undertaken in behalf of the American An- 

 tiquarian Society. He contributed numerous 

 papers to the scientific periodicals, and was 

 the first to ascertain that there is a slight lunar 

 tide on Lake Michigan. The country is in a 

 great measure indebted to Prof. Lapham for 

 the present system of weather probabilities. 

 Acting in concert with the Hon. Henry E. 

 Paine, of Milwaukee, he advocated and framed 

 the law of 1870, which established the Signal- 

 Office. Prof. Lapham was, until lately, State 

 Geologist of Wisconsin, and retained an active 

 interest in scientific progress until the close of 

 his career. 



Sept. 15. STONE, WILLIAM OLIVEB, N. A., 

 a portrait-painter of New York City ; died at 

 Newport, R. I. The Stuyvesants and other old 

 New York families are the possessors of many 

 of his finest portraits. 



Sept. 20. WEEKS, CYEUS, M. D., over forty 

 years practising physician in the city of New 

 York. He was a native of New" Hampshire, 

 and received his diploma from the Medical 

 School at Cambridge, Mass. Commencing 

 practice in New York City, he contributed to 

 The New- Yorker. He was an active member 

 of the New York Academy of Medicine, and, 

 like the late Dr. Francis, he formerly attract- 

 ed to his house, No. 434 Broome Street, some 

 of the leading literary men of the day. Of 

 late, he had resided at Bloomfield, N, J. 



Sept. 21. SMITH, JOSEPH, M. D. ; died at 

 Lexington, Ky. He was born near Danville, 

 Boyle County, Ky., January 8, 1815. He was 

 educated at Centre College, took his first med- 

 ical degree in 1836, another in 1838, and prac- 

 tised medicine for thirty years in Danville. Dr. 

 Smith removed to Lexington eight years before 

 his death. He was a member of the Board of 

 Kentucky University, and professor in the 

 Medical Department of the same. 



Sept. 22. CHAMBERS, Rev. JOHN; died in 

 Philadelphia, aged 78 years. He had been 

 pastor of a Presbyterian Church there for about 

 fifty years, and was, during nearly all that time, 

 a very popular preacher. 



Sept. 23. KEACKOWIZER, ERNEST, M. D. ; 

 died at Sing Sing, N. Y. He was born in 

 Austria, in 1821, and studied medicine at Vi- 

 enna. Several years ago he came to America, 

 and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he prac- 

 tised until 1857, when he removed to the city 



of New York. He excelled in surgery, and was 

 a member of several medical societies. He was 

 also attached to the staff of the Mount Sinai 

 and other hospitals. He was well known and 

 highly esteemed by the Germans of New York. 



Sept. 24. HATCH, ISRAEL T. ; died in Buffalo, 

 aged 67 years. Graduating at Union College, 

 he went to Buffalo in 1828, and practised law. 

 He was Assistant Secretary of State in 1829- 

 '30 ; was elected member of Assembly in 1852, 

 and of Congress in 1856 ; was appointed Post- 

 master of Buffalo in November, 1859, and 

 served till the spring of 1861. Jie was elected 

 a member of the Constitutional Convention 

 of 1867-'68, and acted as Commissioner of the 

 Reciprocity Treaty in 1869-'70. Mr. Hatch 

 was for many years engaged in banking busi- 

 ness, and prominently connected with the 

 elevating and dock enterprises in Buffalo. 



Sept. 24. REYNOLDS, JOHN H. ; died in Kin- 

 derhook, N. Y. About twenty years ago he 

 was a prominent member of the bar of the 

 State of New York, being the contemporary 

 of Nicholas Hill, John K. Porter, and Augustus 

 Beach. In 1858 he was a member of Congress, 

 and in 1873 he became Commissioner of Ap- 

 peals. 



Sept. 28. PORTEOUS, Rev. GEORGE B., pastor 

 of All-Souls' Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; was 

 drowned at Sea Cliff, Long Island, aged about 

 45 years. He was a native of Scotland. After 

 studying law in the University of Glasgow, and 

 medicine in the Andersonian University, in the 

 same city, he studied theology in King's College, 

 London. He was afterward engaged as Epis- 

 copal clergyman in London and other parts of 

 England, but, after ten years' service*, becoming 

 dissatisfied with the Anglican Church, in 1873 

 he came to the United States. After a short 

 term of service here, in connection with the 

 American Episcopal Church, he became a Unita- 

 rian. of the theistic school of Theodore Parker. 

 He was the author of several novels, treatises, 

 and pamphlets, and was a contributor to some 

 British magazines. He was for a few years 

 editor of a religious monthly and a London 

 daily paper. He also lectured on "Genius." 

 "Sectarianism," "Savonarola," "Progress," 

 and "National Characteristics." He 'was a 

 versatile writer and popular speaker. 



Oct. 2. SPALDING, General IRA, military 

 leader and railroad engineer; died in New 

 York City, aged 57 years. Educated as a civil 

 engineer, he began to practise his profession 

 when only twenty-one years old, and was con- 

 nected with several railroads in the western 

 part of New York State and in Canada. During 

 the civil war he was major of the Fiftieth New 

 York Volunteers. He rose to the rank of 

 brevet brigadier-general. At the close of the 

 war he returned to his profession, and became 

 chief-engineer of the Utica, Chenango & Sus- 

 quehanna Railroad, engineer-in- chief of the 

 Costa Rica Railroad, and chief-engineer of the 

 Minnesota division of the Northern Pacific 

 Railroad. 



