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Board of Trustees of the Building Fund of the 
Academy, to which he contributed $3000, He 
was curator of the Academy from January, 
1869, to July, 1876, this period covering the 
time when the institution was removed from 
Broad and Sansom to its present location. 
Much of the labor and responsibility of this re- 
moval rested on Mr. Tryon, who gave up his 
whole time to the work. It is impossible to 
enumerate all the services for which the Acad- 
emy is indebted to Mr. Tryon’s self-sacrificlng 
spirit. His greatest service was undoubtedly 
given to the branch of science to which his 
whole life was devoted. On the upper floor of 
the Academy museum is arrayed a collection 
of shells, which is stated to be one-third larger 
than that of the British Museum, the only 
other collection with which it can be compared. 
This collection was largely the gift of Mr. Try- 
on, and its beautiful arrangement is wholly his 
work. As the visitor passes along the rows of 
cases, which seem endless, he sees displayed 
betore him a representation of the conchology 
of the world. Scarcely a known species of all 
the tens of thousands described is missing, and 
the arrangment is such that any particular 
species may be found at once with its congeners 
about it. The library of the Academy has re- 
cently been described in these columns. 
Speaking of this particular branch, the article 
said: ‘On conchology the library contains, it 
is believed, every important title ever published 
on that subject. The collection has been very 
much increased by George W. Tryon, Jr., who 
gave his own valuable library, and has kept up 
full knowledge on the subject by his important 
work, ‘The Manual of Conchology,’’ which 
has exhausted the bibliography of the subject. 
Mr. Tryon was also well known in musical 
circles, He edited for Lee & Sheppard a 
pamphlet series of operas, which is very popu- 
lar, and essayed on several occassions original 
music work, including an opera. 
Mr. Tryon’s death was very unexpected, and 
appears to have resulted from heart failure. 
He was seized about a week ago with what 
appeared to be an attack of asthma, from which 
he seemed recovering, when he was again sud- | 
denly attacked, and died on Sunday afternoon. 
—Phila. Public Ledger, of Feb. 7th, t888. 
THE - CONCHOLOGISTS’ - EXCHANGE. 
BELL TAPS. 
THE Rey. Hiram C. Hayden, a graduate of Am- 
herst, has been chosen President of Adelbert College. 
HARVARD receives Dr. Asa Gray’s copyrights and 
collections of photographs. 
Mr. JABEZ P. PENNINGTON, of Newark, N. J, and 
a graduate of Princeton, Class of ’23, died March 27, 
aged 86. 
Mr. ANDREW LANG, hasbeen chosen for the Gifford 
Lectureship at St. Andrew’s University, Edinburgh. 
Hon. C. W. WoopMAN, a prominent graduate of 
Dartmouth College, died recently, aged 78. 
RicHarD E. KEMBLE, the oldest living graduate of 
Columbia College (Class of 718), died recently, aged 
88 years. 
Pror. N. E. Crospy, of Columbia College, recently 
returned from Greece, where he has been for a year 
or more in learning the modern Grecian tongue. 
A. AuGust PortER, who died March 15th, was an 
Amherst graduate, and guined prominence for his 
vigilance as U.S. Consul at Clifton, Ontario, during 
the war. 
THe Philadelphia Social Science Association will 
soon issue a2 monograph on Chairs of Pedagogics in 
our Colleges and Universities, by Prof. E. T. James, of 
the University of Pennsylvania. 
Mrs. Lucy M. MrircHeELL, who died in Berlin, 
March 10, was the author of History of Ancient Sculp- 
ture, (New York. 1883) had gained part of her educa- 
tion at Mount Holyoke Seminary. 
THREE names, well-known in the United States, 
are mentioned in connection with the vacant Chair 
of Botany in the University of Edinburgh: viz.: 
Professors Balfour of Glasgow, McNab of Dublin, and 
Traill of Aberdeen. 
Pror. JEREMIAH TINGLEY, of Alleghany Collars 
has been chosen to succeed Prof. Hugo Blanck, in the 
Chair of Chemistry, at the Western Pennsylvania 
Medical College. 
ProF. VON HELMHOLTZ has been appointed Presi- 
dent of the Imperial Physico-Technical Institute, at 
Charlottenburg, Prussia. 
Your attention is directed to the Premium Offers 
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