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fine specimens were secured, and safely 
brought to New York. The beautiful Ber- 
muda Islands were then but little known to 
New-Yorkers and the enthusiastic account of 
their charms given by both Mr. Damon and 
Professor Bickmore undoubtedly helped much 
to make that region popular with New-York- 
ers and Bostonians. 
To this first aquarium venture succeeded 
another, which was housed for some years in a 
building on the site now occupied by the 
Herald Square Theatre. A most appropriate 
banquet celebrated the opening of this 
aquarium, the menu of fifty-three courses con- 
sisting exclusively of fish. With this founda- 
tion Mr. Damon was largely interested and 
when, finally, the present well-equipped aqua- 
rium in Battery Park was established his ad- 
vice and council were eagerly sought and he 
was given a deciding voice in the choice of 
the director. 
There can be no doubt that if Mr. Damon 
could have found an opening enabling him to 
devote all his time and energies to natural 
history he would have earned a world-wide 
reputation in this field, but a leading jewelry 
house would have lacked his valuable services 
as part owner and credit-man, services extend- 
ing for forty years. Nevertheless, his in- 
terest in these studies was always great and 
he found time to make many contributions to 
the progress of this branch of science. His 
book entitled “Ocean Wonders” records a 
number of very interesting experiences gained 
during his early researches. During his busi- 
ness career he was exceedingly fond of ma- 
king pedestrian excursions in the environs of 
New York City, and thus acquired an ex- 
ceptionally thorough knowledge of the forma- 
tion of the land in this territory. 
His lively interest in scientific pursuits and 
the recognition accorded him in the scientific 
world is shown by his membership in the New 
York Microscopical Society, the Royal Micro- 
scopical Society of London, the New York 
Mycological Club, the Scientific Alliance of 
New York, the New York Naturalists’ Club 
and the New York Zoological Society. He 
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was also a member of the New England So- 
ciety. He is survived by a widow. 
Grorce F. Kunz 
MEMORIAL TO MRS. ELLEN H. RICHARDS 
Tue third annual meeting and luncheon of 
the Home Economics Association of Greater 
New York, held on Saturday at the National 
Arts Club in that city, took the form of a me- 
morial to Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, late of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 
president of the Lake Placid Conference of 
Home Economies and the American Home 
Economics Association. The literary pro- 
gram at the luncheon was in charge of Pro- 
fessor Helen Kinne, of the School of House- 
hold Arts, Teachers College, the president of 
the New York association. At the last annual 
meeting Mrs. Richards was present as the 
guest of honor and gave an address on the 
“ Qonservation of Human Resources.” Miss 
Kinne in introducing one of the speakers, 
said that probably there was no member of the 
club whose life had not been touched and 
quickened by Mrs. Richards. For herself, she 
said, she had two mental pictures of Mrs. 
Richards, one in her laboratory at the Insti- 
tute of Technology, and the other in her home 
with the flowers. 
The first speaker was Miss Margaret 
Maltby, professor of physics in Barnard Col- 
lege. She told of her first contact with Mrs. 
Richards while she studied at the Institute 
in 1887 and of the constant thoughtfulness of 
the only woman teacher there for the girl stu- 
dents. She said: 
Mrs. Richards in an unusual degree combined 
the qualities of the prophet, the scientist and the 
practical optimist. She was constantly antici- 
pating lines along which.advance would be made. 
Her imagination was based on a solid foundation 
of scientific fact and her prognostications were 
seldom wrong. Her interests were broad and were 
not confined to any one science. This was shown 
by her study of medical books, by her use of the 
weather charts which came daily to her home, and 
by her activities in many scientific societies. With 
all this there was a sense of proportion, an in- 
stinct for what was feasible, a practical method of 
attack, a wonderful power of analysis, which was 
