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Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Four sons were born, of whom 

 three survive Dr. William Pepper, Jr., Benjamin Franklin Pep- 

 per, and Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper. Failing in health, Dr. 

 Pepper went to California early in the summer of 1898, where he 

 died of heart disease on July 28th of that year. His body reached 

 Philadelphia on August 6th. Funeral services were held in St. 

 James's Protestant Episcopal Church, after which the body was 

 cremated, and the ashes interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery. The 

 American Anthropometric Society received, by the conditions of 

 his will, Dr. Pepper's brain. Among the members of this society 

 were Dr. Joseph Leidy, Phillips Brooks, and Prof. E. D. Cope. 

 The articles of membership of the Anthropometric Society re- 

 quire that each member contribute his brain in the interests of 

 science. 



Dr. Pepper's death was followed by many expressions of sor- 

 row from learned societies in various parts of the world. One 

 of the most beautiful tributes was the memorial meeting held in 

 the city of Mexico on September 12th. The leading medical 

 and scientific societies of Mexico assembled in the hall of Congress 

 to do honor to the work and character of Dr. Pepper. President 

 Diaz occupied the chair, and about him were gathered the leading 

 citizens, officials, and scientists of Mexico. Representatives of the 

 National Medical School and the Board of Health eulogized Dr. 

 Pepper, while Hon. Matias Romero spoke of him not as a physi- 

 cian, but as an " altruist who had consecrated himself to doing 

 good for his fellow-men." 



In Philadelphia, steps have been taken to erect a substantial 

 memorial to Dr. Pepper. At a memorial meeting, held on March 

 6th last, a proposition was made to place a statue of the deceased 

 scientists on the City Hall plaza, after the style of the Girard 

 Monument. A committee was appointed with power to raise funds 

 for the proposed statue, the cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars. 



ONE of the letters of William Pengelly, geologist, of Torquay, England, 

 printed in the memoir published by his daughter, gives this sketch of 

 Babbage, the mathematician and inventor of the calculating machine : " I 

 then called on Babbage, and could not get away until after one. He is a 

 splendid talker. He seemed much pleased to see me, and complimented me 

 very much on my lecture (at the Royal Institution), in which he was evi- 

 dently much interested. He is the most marvelous worker I ever met with. 

 I never saw anything like the evidence of multifarious and vast labor 

 which his ' workshop ' presents ; he sticks at nothing. One drawer full of 

 riddles, another of epigrams, one of squared words, etc. ... It is appall- 

 ing ! And then the downright fun of the fellow ; it is almost intoxicating 

 to be with him!" 



