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logica Rossica, and a corresponding mem- 

 Tjer of most of the other foreign societies as 

 well as of the k. k. Zoologische-Botanische 

 Gesellschaft in Wien. He was an honorary 

 member of most of the American entomo- 

 logical societies, and a corresponding mem- 

 ber of many other natural history societies 

 throughout the country. 



From an early date he was connected 

 with the Academy of Natural Sciences in 

 Philadelphia, where he held the ofi&ce of 

 Corresponding Secretary for fourteen years, 

 and was a member of Council and of the 

 Finance and Publication Committees for 

 long periods of time. He was also a promi- 

 nent member of the American Philoso- 

 phical Society, in which he was Secretary 

 and Librarian at the time of his death. In 

 the American Entomological Society he was 

 always a leading member, succeeding Dr.Le- 

 <!onte as President in 1883, and he was also 

 Director of the Entomological Section of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1889 he 

 was appointed professor of entomology at 

 the University of Pennsylvania ; but the 

 position was a purely honorary one, and he 

 did not teach or lecture. 



Personally he was a good friend and a 

 genial companion. While not in any sense 

 a ' social ' man, he could at times relax 

 completely and act as though no such sci- 

 ence as entomology existed. It is more 

 than probable that his intense and continu- 

 ous application and the nervous tension 

 induced by it contributed to his death. 

 That the doctor himself realized that he 

 was doing too much is proved by the fact 

 that for several years he had gradually re- 

 duced his active practice, and finally gave 

 it up entirely, to spend a large portion of 

 the summer at least at the seashore. But 

 the mischief had been done and the final 

 blow was only a little delayed. 



Entomological science can ill afford to 

 lose a man of his calibre ! 

 ■ EuTGEBs College. John B. Smith. 



PRESENTATION OF PROFESSOR MARSWS 

 COLLECTIONS TO YALE UNIVERSITY. 



At the meeting of the Yale Corporation, 

 held on the 13th inst., O. C. Marsh, Profes- 

 sor cf Paleontology, formally presented to 

 the University the valuable scientific col- 

 lections belonging to him, now deposited in 

 the Peabody Museum. These collections, 

 six in number, are in many respects the 

 most extensive and valuable of any in this 

 country, and have been brought together by 

 Professor Marsh at great labor and expense, 

 during the last thirty years. The paleon- 

 tological collections are well known, and 

 were mainly secured by Professor Marsh 

 during his explorations in the Rocky 

 Mountains. They include most of the type 

 specimens he has described in his various 

 publications. The collection of osteology 

 and that of American archjeology are also 

 extensive and of great interest. The pres- 

 ent value of all these collections makes 

 this the most important gift to natural 

 science that Yale has yet received. 



At the same meeting the Yale Corpora- 

 tion accepted Professor Marsh's gift by a 

 unanimous vote, and expressed their high 

 appreciation of his generosity to the Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor Marsh's letter accompanying 

 his deed of gift is essentially as follows : 



To the President and Fellows of Yale University. 



Gentlemen: It is thirty years and more since Mr. 

 George Peabody established at Yale, by a gift of one 

 hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the Museum that 

 now bears his name. This was in 1866, the year I 

 began my work as Professor of Paleontology, and I 

 secured this gift mainly with a view of building up a 

 Department of Paleontology that should be a school 

 of original research as well as one of instruction. 

 The collections of natural history which I had thus 

 brought together were subsequently deposited in the 

 Peabody Museum, and from that time I have en- 

 deavored in every way to increase these collections, 

 so that at present they are in many respects the most 

 extensive and valuable in this country. 



It has always been part of my plan that these 

 scientific collections should eventually become the 

 property of Yale University, and from the first I pro- 



