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of Othnanieyh of Turkey, of the Ducal House 

 of Saxony, and of the Red Eagle and Knights of 

 Jerusalem of Germany. 



He married Sarah Reed, of Georgetown, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, and three children survive 

 him. Of his sons, Bertram Van Dyck became a 

 professor of biology in Robert College at Con- 

 stantinople, and Wilfred N., surgeon at the 

 American Hospital, Caesarea. 



He gave much time, during the last few years 

 of his life, to starting a Museum of Economic 

 Botany, which now forms an interesting and val- 

 uable feature of the hall at Beirut which bears his 

 name. 



His unflagging energy and zeal finally burned 

 itself out. He lived his three-score years and ten, 

 the lamp of life going out in his seventy-first year. 

 Shortly before his death he remarked wearily, " I 

 have worn out my bodily machine." But it was 

 impossible for a man of his nature to do other- 

 wise and be happy. A few days after that re- 

 mark, a discerning friend placed in his still right 

 hand some generous ears of ripe wheat a beau- 

 tiful symbol that his life had not been lived in 

 vain. 



Personal communication from Dr. Bertram V. D. Post. 



New York Observer, October 7, 1909. 



New York Evening Post, October 8, 1909. 



The Missionary Review, New York, December, 1909. 



Stone's Biog. of Eminent Amer. Phys. and Surgs. 



