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in the schools of mining in Paris and Freiberg. He took part in the Fortieth Parallel Survey, 

 and worked with Arnold Hague on the Descriptive Geology of that survey. In 1879 he was 

 put in charge of economic geology in the Rocky Mountain Division of the U.S. Geological 

 Survey, and worked at Leadville, preparing statistics on precious metals for the loth 

 Census. The scene of his last labours was Leadville again, but final results of his investiga- 

 tions had not been published at his death. 



Robley Dunglison Evans, naval officer, died January 3, 1912. He was born in Floyd 

 county, Va., August 18, 1846. He was commissioned ensign in the American Navy in 1863 

 after graduation from the Naval Academy. He served with the North Atlantic Blockading 

 Squadron, and was permanently crippled by a wound in the right leg in the land attack by 

 sailors on Fort Fisher (December 25, 1864). In 1891-92, commanding the " Yorktown" at 

 Valparaiso, Chile, he displayed, great ability and firmness in settling the trouble arising from 

 the killing of several American sailors in that city. At this time he received the sobriquet 

 "Fighting Bob." In the Spanish-American War he was captain of the battle-ship "Iowa," 

 which took a prominent part in the destruction of Cervera's fleet off Santiago, Cuba. He was 

 appointed rear admiral in 1901. He commanded the Asiatic station in 1902-04 and the 

 Atlantic fleet in 1905-08. On August 18, 1908 he was retired, and on account of ill health 

 gave up command of the Atlantic Fleet, then on tour of the world. He wrote A Sailor's 

 Log (1901), and An Admiral's Log (1910). 



Arthur Henry Ewing, missionary, died at Allahabad, India, on September 13, 1912. He 

 was born at Saltsburg, Pa., on October 18, 1864. He graduated at Washington and Jefferson 

 College (1887), at Western Theological Seminary (1890) and at Johns Hopkins University 

 (1891), was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1890, and became a missionary in India, 

 where he was principal of a boys' boarding school at Ludhiana in 1891-08 and established the 

 Christian College at Allahabad in 1901. He was chairman of the united council on work 

 among young people in India from 1907 until his death. 



Rose Eytinge, actress, died December 30, 19 n. She was born in Philadelphia, November 

 21, 1838, and acquired great popularity in emotional roles, in the United States and England, 

 playing with Edwin Booth (1862), in Lester Wallack's company (1868) and with Augustin 

 Daly, but seldom appearing after 1884. For several .years after 1870 she lived in Egypt 

 where her husband (George H. Butler) was American consul-general. She dramatised 

 several of Dickens' works, Browning's Colombe's Birthday, etc., and wrote a few novels and 

 recollections of her life in Egypt. 



Harry Fenn, artist, died April 24, 1911. He was born in Richmond, Surrey, September 

 14, 1838, but went to the United States in 1857. He was best known as a book illustrator, 

 especially of gift books (poetry, travels, etc.), but he also acquired considerable reputation 

 as an aquarelle painter and was a founder of the American Water Color Society. 



Isaac Nelson Ford, journalist, died in London on August 7, 1912. He was born at'Buffalo, 

 N. Y., June II, 1848, graduated at Brown University in 1870, and in the same year became 

 a reporter for the New York Tribune, which he served as leader-writer, and, from 1895, as 

 London correspondent. He was the founder of the London Pilgrims' Club. He wrote 

 Tropical America (1893). 



Sam Walter Foss, poet, died February 26, 1911. He was born at Candia, N. H., June 19, 

 1858, graduated at Brown University in 1882, and was an editor and later a lecturer and 

 public reader of his own verse. He was librarian of the Somerville, Mass., Public Library, 

 from 1898 until his death. He published five volumes of verse (Songs of the Average Man, 

 Dreams in Homespun, etc.) of a popular nature. 



Paul Caspar Freer, chemist, died April 17, 1912. He was born in Chicago, 111., March 

 27, 1862, graduated from Rush Medical College in 1882, and subsequently studied chemistry 

 in Germany (Ph.D., Munich, 1887) and in Owens College, Manchester, England. He taught 

 at Tufts College in 1887-89, and then became professor of chemistry at the University of 

 Michigan. In 1901 the American government sent Dr. Freer to Manila as superintendent 

 of government laboratories. This organisation became, in 1905, the Bureau of Science of 

 the Government of the Philippines, and he was made director. He was the pioneer in general 

 scientific work in the islands, and built up a great research institution that is now classed 

 with the best in the world. He was founder and editor-in-chief of the Philippine Journal 

 of Science. The Philippine Medical School, founded in 1906 and now part of the University of 

 the Philippines, was largely his own creation. He was dean of the College of Medicine and 

 Surgery, and professor of chemistry in the University. He wrote severa'l text-books of 

 chemistry and many articles on the structure of ring compounds, etc. 



William Pierce Frye, politician, died at Lewiston, Me., August 8, 1911. He was born 

 there September 2, 1831. He practised law after his graduation from Bowdoin College (1850) 

 and after studying under W. P. Fessenden. Affiliated always with the Republican party, 

 he was a member of the state legislature (1861, 1862, 1867), mayor of Lewiston (1866-67), 

 attorney-general of Maine (1867-69), representative in Congress in 1871-81, and successor 

 to James G. Blaine in the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1881 until his death and was 

 chairman of the commerce committee after 1889. He was president pro-tern, of the Senate 

 in 1896 and after 1901 and was a member of the Paris Peace Commission (1898) to negotiate 

 terms of peace between Spain and the United States. 



