OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MALONE MARVIN.) 



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Malone, Sylvester, clergyman, born in Trim, 

 County Meath, Ireland, May 8, 1821; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1899. He studied at 

 the academy of Mathew and Martin Carroll, in 

 Dublin, was brought to the United States in 1839 

 by the Rev. Andrew Byrne, of St. James's parish, 

 New York city, and was placed in St. Joseph's 

 Seminary at Le Fargeville, N. Y., to continue his 

 education. He was ordained a priest on Aug. 

 15, 1844, and in 1847 was appointed to the Church 

 of Saints Peter and Paul, Brooklyn. At the be- 

 ginning of the civil war he hoisted on his church 

 spire a United States flag, which was taken down 

 and carried to the front by Williamsburg men. 

 In 1852 and in 1806 he was appointed theologian 

 to Bishop Reynolds, of Charleston. In 1881 he 

 visited Europe and Asia. He was one of the 

 ardent supporters of Dr. Edward McGlynn. On 

 March 29, 1894, he was elected a regent of the 

 University of the State of New York, and Aug. 

 15 the golden jubilee of his ordination to the 

 priesthood was celebrated. In 1898 he estab- 

 lished a free library in Henry McCaddin Hall, 

 Brooklyn. 



Mannheimer, Godfrey, collector, born in Ba- 

 varia in 1839; died in New York city, June 6, 

 1899. He came to the United States about 1869, 

 and for fifteen years was engaged in the dry -goods 

 business in St. Paul, Minn., and Chicago. He 

 then settled in New York city. He accumulated 

 an extensive collection of paintings, porcelains, 

 bric-a-brac, ivories, and pearls. About ten years 

 ago he presented the large painting Justinian and 

 his Court to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



Marcy, Oliver, educator, born in Colerain, 

 Mass., Feb. 13, 1820; died in Evanston, 111., March 

 19, 1899. He was graduated at Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity in 1846, and was called to Northwestern 

 University as Professor of Natural History in 

 1862. From 1876 till 1881 he was also acting 

 president, and since 1881 he had been dean of the 

 faculty. In 1876 he received the degree of LL. D. 

 from the University of Chicago. Dr. Marcy was 

 geologist on the Government road from Lewiston, 

 Idaho, to Virginia City, Mont., in 1866, and was 

 a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He 

 published many addresses and essays. 



Marsh, Othniel Charles, palaeontologist, born 

 in Lockport, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1831; died in New 

 Haven, Conn., March 18, 1899. He was a nephew 

 of George Peabody, the philanthropist, and was 

 graduated at Yale in 

 1860, after which for two 

 years he studied science 

 in the Sheffield School. 

 He then went abroad, 

 and for three years de- 

 voted himself to studies 

 of zoology, mineralogy, 

 and geology in Berlin, 

 Heidelberg, and Breslau. 

 Returning to the United 

 States, he was made Pro- 

 fessor of Palaeontology 

 at Yale in 1866, which 

 chair he held until his 

 death. He spent his va- 

 cations in exploring ex- 

 peditions, and saw the famous localities in 

 this country and abroad. He first visited the 

 Rocky mountain region in 1868, learned of 

 the inexhaustible fossil riches of that terri- 

 tory, and organized the Yale scientific expe- 

 dition, which he conducted to the West in 1870, 

 1871, 1872, and 1873. Thereafter he depended 

 upon local collectors and small parties for the 

 work of gathering fossils. From 1882 till his 



death he was vertebrate pahnontologist to the 

 United States Geological Survey, although his 

 field work for that survey terminated in JS92. 

 More than 1,000 new fossil vertebrates were dis- 

 covered by him, and more than half of these 

 were described and classified by him. Among 

 his more important discoveries arc a new sub 

 class of birds with teeth, which he culled Of/ow- 

 tornithex, and the first known American ptero- 

 dactyles; two new orders of large mammals from 

 the Eocene Tertiary of the Rocky mountains the 

 Tillodontia, which appear to be rclaled to the 

 carnivores and ungulates, and the Dinwratu. 

 animals of elephantine bulk, bearing on their 

 heads two or more horn cores; also, from the 

 same formation, the Epihippus, or the early an- 

 cestors of the modern horse, and the first lemu- 

 roids, bats, and marsupials ever found in this 

 country. He also discovered several new families 

 of dinosaurs, probably the largest land animals 

 yet discovered. In consequence of his influence 

 Mr. Peabody presented to Yale the fund from 

 which has been erected the Peabody Museum, of 

 which Prof. Marsh was curator. In 1898 he pre- 

 sented his own collections to the university. Of 

 the material collected and described by him 

 Charles Darwin wrote: "Your work on these 

 old birds and the many fossils and animals of 

 North America has offered the best support to 

 the theory of evolution that has appeared in the 

 last twenty years." In 1877 he was the recipient 

 of the first Bigsby medal awarded by the Geo- 

 logical Society of London, and in 1898 he re- 

 ceived the valued Cuvier prize of the French 

 Academy of Sciences. He was made honorary 

 curator of vertebrate palaeontology in the United 

 States National Museum in 1887. In 1886 the 

 degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Har- 

 vard, and that of Ph. D. by Heidelberg. He was 

 president of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in 1878, and from 1883 

 till 1895 was president of the National Academy 

 of Sciences. Prof. Marsh was an honorary or 

 corresponding member of the Institute of France 

 and the Academies of Science in Bologna, Brus- 

 sels, Copenhagen, Munich, and Philadelphia. His 

 bibliography contains 237 titles. His work in- 

 cluded Odontornithes : A Monograph on the Ex- 

 tinct Toothed Birds of North America (Washing- 

 ton, 1880); Dinocerata: A Monograph of an 

 Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals (1884); and 

 The Dinosaurs of North America (1896). A mem- 

 oir, with portrait and complete bibliography, 

 by Charles E. Beecher, was published in the 

 American Journal of Science for June, 1899. (See 

 GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) 



Marvin, Selden Erastus, banker, born in 

 Jamestown, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1835; died in New 

 York city, Jan. 19, 1899. He studied law with 

 his father, Judge Richard P. Marvin, but, finding 

 the profession uncongenial, became teller in the 

 Chautauqua County Bank. In 1862 he was ap- 

 pointed adjutant of the 112th New York Volun- 

 teers, and in that office and as assistant adjutant 

 general of Gen. Foster's brigade and the Army 

 of Southern Virginia he served through the Penin- 

 sula and Charleston campaigns till September, 

 1863, when he was appointed a paymaster and 

 assigned to the Army of the Potomac. On Dec. 

 27, 1864, he resigned from the army to become 

 paymaster general on the staff of Gov. Fenton, 

 of New York. When Gov. Fenton was re-elected 

 he appointed Gen. Marvin his Adjutant General, 

 and he held this office till 1868. As paymaster 

 general of New York Gen. Marvin reimbursed 

 the different committees of the State for boun- 

 ties to fill the quotas established by the Federal 



