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printed in two large volumes in 1887 and 

 1890, and constitute his most ambitious 

 work. 



Aside from his scientific woi'k, Dr. Egles- 

 ton took a very active part in religious and 

 charitable work. He was a vestryman of 

 Trinity Church for twenty years, and at 

 the time of his death was Junior "Warden, 

 as well as member of several committees. 

 For nearly thirty years he was Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the Protestant Episcopal Mission 

 Society and a Trustee of the General 

 Theological Seminary. He is also to be 

 credited with the establishment of ' Food 

 Kitchens' in New York, and with organ- 

 izing the Public Parks Association by 

 which Washington Square was saved. The 

 Audubon Monument movement was also 

 started by him. 



In 1874 Princeton conferred upon him 

 the degree of Ph.D., and Trinity that of 

 LL.D. In 1890 he was appointed a Chev- 

 alier of the Legion of Honor by the French 

 government on the recommendation of the 

 Director and members of the Faculty of the 

 Ecole des Mines. In 1895 he was made ' Of- 

 ficier.' It is pleasant to record also that since 

 his death the Trustees of Columbia Univer- 

 sity have named the Museum of Mineralogy 

 the ' Egleston Mineralogical Museum,' thus 

 attaching his name permanently to the col- 

 lection which he created and loved. 



In 1896 his health gave way, and though 

 after a rest he endeavored to resume his 

 work, he could not stand the strain and was 

 retired June 30, 1897, at his own request, 

 as Professor Emeritus. 



The service of Dr. Egleston to science 

 lies not so much in his numerous writings, 

 though these contain an enormous mass of 

 valuable information collected with infinite 

 labor and published always when and where 

 they were needed. Far more important 

 was what has been happily called ' his 

 intuitive perception of the situation,' his 

 recognition of when the time was ripe to 



inaugurate a movement, his skill in organ- 

 ization and the amazing vigor, persistency 

 and unfailing belief with which he forced 

 it to success. Alfred J. Moses. 



THE SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY OF CARL VON 

 KUPFFER.—HIS LIFE AND WORKS. 

 Pkofessor von Kupffee has lately passed 

 the mark of three score years and ten and 

 has received the congratulations of his stu- 

 dents of many lands. Some of these, fol- 

 lowing the good German custom, have pre- 

 pared memoirs in his honor which appear in 

 a memorial volume and were presented him 

 as a birthday gift. Von Kupifer has been 

 a most helpful friend to the Americans who 

 have carried on their investigations in the 

 Anatomical Institute in Munich during the 

 past generation, and it seems but just that 

 at this time an American journal should 

 pay a tribute to his life and work. — Editor 

 OF Science. 



Carl von Kupffer ranks to-day as one who 

 has taken a place within the innermost 

 circle of comparative embryologists. He 

 has long been recognized as a profound 

 scholar in a broad field of zoological knowl- 

 edge ; he is best known, however, for his 

 researches upon the structure, development 

 and descent of the vertebrates. 



In his biography von Kupffer presents an 

 interesting parallel with the great embry- 

 ologist, Karl Ernst von Baer. Both were 

 natives of the Baltic provinces of Russia, 

 students and graduates of the University 

 of Dorpat, and sometime practicing physi- 

 cians until drawn into zootomical-embryo- 

 logical research. Both were for a time 

 professors at Konigsberg, and showed a 

 distinct bent towards the widely separate 

 themes of Arctic exploration and crani- 

 ology ; they were equally interested in mat- 

 ters relating to fish and fishery and contrib- 

 uted important memoirs to this subject. On 

 the other hand they had in general but little 

 leaning towards work of the systematst. 



