OBITUARY NOTICES. i 
OBITUARY NOTICES OF MEMBERS DECEASED. 
Henry HartsHorRNE.—During the decade which closes the 
nineteenth century there have passed away from our membership 
alone, to be enrolled among the vast majority, no less than two 
hundred and eighteen of those whose labors in search of truth 
and the dissemination of useful knowledge among our fellow- 
men had rendered them famous in our own or in foreign lands, 
and whose qualities had endeared many of them individually to 
those among us who still mourn their loss and feel all the more 
keenly the burden which they were wont to share with us. Of these 
men so distinguished in every branch of thought—philosophy, the- 
ology, law, medicine, natural science, physics, astronomy, history, 
archeology, literature, poetry, painting and all the other useful 
arts and sciences applied for the promotion of the comfort of life 
and the well-being of the human race—it is not my purpose to-night 
to speak: nor of the wonderful effect of their labors on the progress 
of human thought, on our acquaintance with the world in which we 
dwell, the history of those who have gone before us, our social and 
civic relations with each other, or even the evolution of a higher 
manhood. But among these men of higher purpose I would call 
attention especially to our own personal losses among the resident 
members of our Society, numbering no less than ninety-eight, whose 
presence and aid we so sadly miss, as well as that of many others 
among the non-residents whose more or less frequent visits and 
communications rendered them almost as well known in this Hall 
as the resident members. And yet again among these men distin- 
guished as they were in their various avocations, literary, scientific, 
social or economic, I would especially call to mind those whom I 
may in a larger sense call our Educators, whether in the lines of 
original investigation or in those of collaboration and utilization of 
others’ labors or in those of public instruction, whether as lecturers, 
teachers or writers. Among these the names of Leidy, Le Conte, 
Horn, Agnew, Genth, Rogers, Furness, Wormley, Pancoast, Greg- 
ory, Cope, Traill Green, G. W. Biddle, Sartain, Childs, Harrison 
Allen, Goodell, Ashhurst, McCosh, Cattell, Rhoads, Coppée, 
Ruschenberger, Ryder, Keating, Maisch, Parvin, Pepper, Brinton, 
Kendall and others will doubtless present themselves to your minds. 
Among these, and as one worthy to be ranked among the foremost, 
