x OBITUARY NOTICES. 
tion. In all the relations of life he moved upon the highest levels 
and showed forth the better qualities of our nature.’’ 
His loss falls heavily upon all—his colleagues, his friends and his 
University—but most heavily upon his family, with whom we deeply 
sympathize. 
WILLIAM VancentT McKean was born in Philadelphia, October 
15, 1820, and died March 23, 1903. He was associate editor of 
the Pennsylvania with John W. Forney in 1852; chief clerk of the 
House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855 ; examiner of the Uni- 
ted States Patent Office ; private secretary to James Buchanan ; an 
editorial writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Public Ledger. 
He edited the Wational Almanac Record for 1864, and wrote a 
report favoring the money order system for the United States in 
1858, What the Navy Has Done During the War in 1864, General 
Mc Clellan’s Campaign in 1864, and delivered an address in Inde- 
pendence Hall on July 2, 1876, entitled ‘‘ The Centennial of Amer- 
‘ican Independence.”’ 
THEODORE D. Ranp was born in Philadelphia, September 16, 
1836, and graduated from the Episcopal Academy and the Poly- 
technic College. In 1858 he was admitted to the Bar and practiced 
Law for a time. He was chiefly known for his scientific work in 
connection with Mineralogy and Geology, having published a num- 
ber of papers on these branches and lectured very frequently before 
scientific bodies. He was a member of the Mineralogical section 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences, also the Franklin Institute and 
the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He died on April 
24, aged sixty-seven years. 
Epwarp Ruoaps. It was only last spring that this young scien- 
tist was received into our membership. No one at that time 
dreamed that he would not be with us now in the full vigor of man- 
hood. His history is briefly as follows: 
Dr. Rhoads graduated with honors from Haverford College in 
1893. He studied from 1896-1898 at Johns Hopkins University, 
from which institution he received the degree of Doctor of Philos- 
ophy. Immediately thereafter he became instructor in physics in 
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Leaving here in 1901 he was 
