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but, pjeninl presence, his deep-toned but pleasant and cheery voice. 

 He leaves a widow, three sons, and two daughters. His eldest son, 

 who is in the Church, succeeds his father as Vicar of Stokesay ; one 

 is on the staff of the Geological Survey of India; and the other is 

 a Civil Engineer in the Public Works Department of the Madras 

 Presidency. J. H. 



OTHNIEL CHARLES MARSH, LL.D. (YALE), Ph.D. (HEIDELBERG). 



Born October 29, 1831. Died March 18, 1899. 



(WITH A PORTRAIT.) 



Science of late has become so cosmopolitan in its interests that 

 the loss of any one of its leading members is felt and mourned in 

 distant lands as keenly as in the University in which he may 

 have made his home. 



A while since we had to regret the loss of Professor Dames of 

 Berlin ; yesterday we deplored that of Professor Nicholson of 

 Aberdeen ; to-day we mourn the loss of our dear American cousin, 

 Professor 0. C. Marsh of Yale. Such ties of sympathy and personal 

 regard tend to knit more closely together our geological friends 

 everywhere, and we join hands far and near in times of joy and sorrow. 



0. C. Marsh was born at Lockport, New York, October 29, 1831, 

 and graduated at Yale in 1860. Of his early years we have no 

 details, but it may be inferred that it was due to the interest of his 

 uncle, Mr. George Peabody, that after his schooldays had long 

 ended he entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1860 at 

 the age of 29. After travelling in Canada and Nova Scotia, whei-e 

 he discovered remains of a new Enaliosaurian (JHosaurus Acadianus) 

 in the Coal-formation of NoVa Scotia, he came to Europe and spent 

 three years in the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, and Breslau, 

 under Beyrich, Ehrenberg, Roemer, and other famous German 

 Professors. 



He visited London in 1864, and whilst diligently studying in the 

 British Museum he became acquainted with the writer, and from 

 that time a warm friendship was commenced, which lasted to the 

 end. A letter arrived on the morning of the 20th March, addressed 

 in Marsh's well-known handwriting, and also a telegram, the former 

 full of life and pleasant hopes and promises, the latter the messenger 

 of death : " Professor Marsh died yesterday, illness short, Beecher." 

 Reverting again to 1864: we had just before (1862) secured the 

 famous collection of Dr. Haberlein from the lithographic-stone 

 quarries of Eichstatt, in Bavaria, which, among other treasures, 

 contained the famous Archceopteryx. Marsh at that time devoted 

 himself diligently to the investigation of the fossil Annelides, and 

 discovered on one specimen the well-preserved jaws of Helminthodes 

 antiquus, which he carefully worked out with his own hands and 

 afterwards described and figured. 



Returning to America in 1866, he joined Professor Sir William 

 Thomson (now Lord Kelvin) when engaged in the delicate task of 

 picking up and splicing the first Anglo-American cable in mid- 

 Atlantic. The same year he was offered the Chair of Palaeontology 



