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ough review of the situation to be entitled to this designation. There are men 
in this branch of the service who have been there from the beginning—who 
aided General Myer while he lived and who are entitled to divide with that 
eminent gentleman all the honors earned by the bureau as a whole. It is idle to 
say that among these can not be found one who is better qualified than any 
merely military man can be to fill the vacancy now existing. The Signal Service 
has done great good in the past and is capable of immensely greater good in the 
future. To be worthy of its past or hopeful as to its future, however, it must be 
managed and directed on correct business principles—the very first of which is 
that the man best fitted for its control shall be intrusted with its control, and that 
it shall not be treated as a prize to he bestowed upon a personal friend or as a 
reward for merit, however great, in some department of public service entirely 
disconnected with its duties. —S¢. Louis Globe-Democrat. 
NEGROLOGY: 
DECEASED 1880. 
AnpreEws, Pror. E. B., Lancaster, Ohio. Died Aug. 21, 1880. 
Anprews, Kittie GaLiup, Vineland, N. J. Died May 10, 1880. 
Musmina ©) ts, Closter, Ni J. Died May 18; 1880: 
Barker, Dantet, Norfolk, Va. Died Aug. 23, 1879. 
Bowers, Mrs. STEPHEN, Santa Barbara, Cal. Died Sept. 1879. 
BREWER, THomas M., 233 Beacon St., Boston. 
BREWSTER, CuHas. G., Boston, Mass. Died 1880. 
BUMSTEAD, FREEMAN J., M. D., New York. Died May 28, 1879. 
BurBank, L. S., Woburn, Mass. Died Aug., 1880. 
CassELs, J. L., Western Reserve Coll., Hudson, Ohio. 
Cuapman, W. B., Cincinnati College, Cincinnati, Ohio. Died 1874. 
Cooke, Cates, Peabody Acad. Sci., Salem, Mass. Died June 5, 1880. 
EserRSOL, D. S., Sec. Acad. Nat. Sci., Ottawa, Ill. Died April 10, 1880. 
Frost, Cuas. C., Brattleboro, Vt. Died March 16, 1880. 
GuNTHER, O. R., Curator Nat. Hist. Soc., Worcester, Mass., Died 1880. 
Hatpeman, Dr. S. S., LL. D., Prof. Comp. Philol., Univ. of Pa., Chickies, 
Pa. Died Sept. 10, 1880. 
Hunt, Epwin, Ph. D., Utica, N. Y. Died 1880. 
Jounston, JoHN, Prof. Chem., Wesleyan Univ., Middleton, Conn. Dec., 1879. 
Kepzir, Pror. W. K., Oberlin College, 1880. 
Lane, J. Homer, Coast Survey, Washington, D.C. Died April 24, 1880. 
LasseL, WiiL1AMs, F. R. S., Astronomer, died Oct. 4, 1880. 
LINDHEIMER, FERDINAND, New Braunfels, Tex. Died Dec., 1879. 
Meics, Pror. J. H., M. D., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Mitner, J. W., Waukegan, Illinois. 
