OBIT! 



seen during a sea voyaco to Boston, and a 

 later his jt.iirnnl M; . -it to the 



Museum of Natural S-iciiees in Philadelphia 

 a bo) 1 an incessant activity in mind 



todv. reaching in 'ii for knowl- 



.ilion was obtained in the 



-.1 in Philadelphia and in the 



. after which, in 1- 



n tin- t'ni\ci>ity .f Penn-yl- 



vania. an- 1 id. i) joined the jrroup !" 'ural- 



ists who were associated in the Smithsonian In-ti- 



- . n. , r F. Bainl. Duriiis: l*i:i V,| he 



.1 much nltcntion t the 



great ; '"1 the chair of 



Natural Srietn . - in Ha . which he 



\ears; in ISiS he was employe.! by 

 the . f >hio to determine the 



Character- ..f the air-breathing vci :i the 



rual d in 1*71 he oondaoted an expedition 



re he ill\ 



an. I collected their fossil-; a year hit 

 joined th ii survey of the Territories un- 



der Ferdinand V. i. j>ahront<>|ni;i>t. mid 



:n the field 'in Wyoming iii isT'J and in 

 Colorado : B then entered the p-o^raph- 



ical sur\e\- nf the Territories of the I'nitcd States 

 hundredth meridian, under Lieut. 

 _- M. Wheeler, ami continued with that .- 

 until iU consolidation with the I'nited States Geo- 

 logical Su: 1 'uriui; these year> he ex- 

 plored the United Slates from the Missouri ri. 



in. and from the (iulf of Mexico to 

 the Briti>h line, discovering nearly a thousand new 

 gneci< .nd as many recent vertebral a. 



Hi- . relate chiefly to hcrpct. 



ichthvnlogy. mammalogy, ami paleontology, ' He 

 foiin.: in art. he left it a science; he 



f iind it a device mainly for the naming of sp< 



it the expression of the co-ordination of all 

 structural The reformations In- ehVcted 



;!) of the anurous ainphiliiai. 

 .turian reptile-; were especially notal)le." of 

 his researches in iehthvoiogy Prof. GH1I says: "Hi- 

 work on the extinct fishes w'ns incomparably I 

 than any that has been done before in the United 

 He far surpassed all hi- predecessors, not 

 onlv by hi* knowledge Of morphological details mani- 

 the extinct as well jis in living forms, hut by 

 ; hi'-al instinct and taxonomic ' 



rk in mammalogy was most poieiit. Dur- 



tion wit'h the Government sur- 

 veys he discovered, classified, and described many 

 new form-. The discovery of the /////, \\a- lii- 



al achievement, and practically the 



whole fauna f the Wa-at'-h was (fiSOOVered and 



descriU'd ly him. The titles of hi- many papers. 

 about "400 in miuilicr. form n systematic record of 

 Hi of pa!, i in the t'nited 



States. Amon^ l.i- larger woi k- i: Bob of 



science, most of whi-h are contained in (Jovern- 



- 



unit of the Lacertilia and Ophidi 

 .iry (iroups ,f the Batrachin Anur 

 ry of the Cetacea of the F.a-tern North Am- 

 erican 3 . nop^isnf the Kxtin. 

 tacea of the United State* :atic 

 Ami; :. MJlia, 

 and Ave- r,f North Arm-riea" (1HOJ> 



K'elations of il- ia ii< 



Relations of tho Tailnl Batradiia" 

 tinct Vertebrata of i i 



<'rc-tacf.n . La of the West" 



: "Tertiary V, rtel.i.va " (1885); "Catalogue 



of the Batrachia ptilesof Central America 



and Mexico" (1887 I'.atrachia of North 



America" (1889); and "The Snakes and Lizards of 



996). <>n the death of Lei 

 I V '.M. was called to the chair 



and PaJsjontology in the t ni\ei>iiy of Pennsyl- 

 ,. whii-h pla'ee he held until liis death, "in 

 other ways he was active in hi> native city, and he 

 was for inanv years secretary and curator (.f the 

 Ae;i*: Vitural Sci- l.e \\ ;i- chief of 



the department of organic maien.il of the penna- 

 neiit exhibition in Philadelphia. In 1^7* he pur- 



\ Naturalist." which i 



1 to iMiilade||i)iia. and he <1< \oted nio-t ,,; !,i^ 

 time to its pub! r edi- 



I- r until his death. Tin i, .,1 medal of the 



in \\a> conferred on him 

 in 1^7!'. and in 



ineil the Am- 



M for the Advancement of Science in 

 he scetimi in lii..l..^y in l^^l. 



and W;ts elected its presiilelit ill l^'.Hi. ''flic d- 

 trine of evolution received earne-t and careful 

 study from him, and he was reco^M/e.l | 



.niarckian school in the Tniled 



. Ill- WOrkfl OO tlii- -ubjcel include: "The 



nri-in <f (Jeiiera" (1SOH); "Hyp.,thc,i> of Kvolu- 

 tion. Physical and Metaphysical' (I :ho,| s 



. f < Ycal'ion ,,f Organic 'I Mimi 



and its Consc<|uenc. . ..ns-ioiiMi. 



Evolution <>,, the Theory of Kvolulion" 



Pbe nri-in of Will' 



tion of Animal Motion to Animal Kvoluti- 

 A Eleview of the Modern Doctrine of Kvoiution" 



'riu'in of Man and Other Vcrtcb:. 

 . : "The Mn.T-v of Life Kvoiution mid how 

 it has toted "(1880) J -The Origin of the Fr 

 (1880): and "The Primal . 



lotion "(1896). His home in Pine Street was - 

 from cellar to garret with his collections. Hi- own 

 room was piled waist hi^h with pamphlets, f > 

 and alcoholic specinn n-. Occasionally an aged 

 tortoise would wander out from beneath a saurian, 

 and one of hi- latest net- was a (iila monster, which, 

 contrarv to the popular belief, wa- jn-rfectly h;irm- 

 less ami loved to be handled by it- owner. Kven 

 after death his love for science manifested itself by 

 his curious will. He directed that hi- b-.dy ! 

 en-mated, but his brain and skeleton 

 (jiieathed to t he \Vi-t.-r Museum of the l'ni\ 

 of Pennsylvania. The School of p. 

 his library and o-teol.,-ical collections, whil his 



paleontotogioaJ c<,]i ( -cti,.! lend to be . sold 



and the pniceeds dc\<.ted to the endowment of 



-or-hip (,f vcrtebiv Mli'lo-jy in the 



Academy of Natural . "on condition that 



the professor shall be an original investigator of 

 merit, who shall be elected by the council of the 



MIV. and shall have the approval of tie 

 tioiial Academy r,f I 1( .rn speak- of 



him as "a Lrreat naturalist, certainly tie 

 America ha- produced." (Jill coni|iares him 

 n, and Huxley, and -;i 



d a field as extensive a> any of 'the three. 

 Hi- knowledge of structural details of all the 

 classes <>f vertebrates was probably more symmet- 

 rical than that of any of those with whom he is 

 compared; his command of material \v 

 than that of any of the others; his industry was 

 eipial to Owen's; in the clearness n f hi- c.ncep- 



!M- wa- equaled by Huxley alone; in the -kill 

 with which he weighed discovered fact-, in the apt- 

 ness of hi- ion of th and in the 

 lucid meti iiich the labor of the student 

 Was Saved, and in the conception of the nun.' 

 prop, ilitated. lie was unequaled." 



-: and see his portrait in tin; 

 .al Cycloi,;i.lia" for I-'.M; 



( orson. Juliet writer, born in 



Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 14, 1842; died in New York 



