say, insured. 



Obituary. We are sorry to announce 7 this 

 week the death, at Framingham, Mass., July 

 30, of Dr. Edward Lewis Sturtevant, the well- 

 known expert in scientific agriculture, whose 

 name some years ago appeared not infrequently 

 as a correspondent in these columns. He was 

 born in Boston, in 1842, graduated from Bow- 

 doin college in 1863, served for a time in the 

 civil war, then went through the Harvard Medi- 

 cal School, settling finally at South Framing- 

 ham, Mass., where he devoted himself to agri- 

 cultural pursuits on a large scale, including the 

 more or less extensive breeding of dairy cattle. 

 He was associated, for a while at least, with his 

 brother Joseph N. Sturtevant, their first pub- 

 lished letters in 1871 and 1873 being signed 

 Sturtevant Bros. They were then interested in 

 breeding (and defending) Ayrshire cattle, on 

 which he wrote a monograph in 1875, entitled 

 " The Dairy Cow." From 1871 to and includ- 

 ing 1885, only two volumes of the COUNTRY 

 GBNTLBMAN (for '78 and '79) are without con- 

 tributions from Dr. Sturtevant. In 1881 he 

 became the first director of the New- York Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Geneva, where 

 he remained for six years. He was a fellow of 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, and in 1887 was president of the 

 Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 

 Science. 



