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to keep his daily labor for maintenance as close as possible to his beloved 
science was ever prominent. Asa young man, in 1879 he went to Los 
Angeles, California, to engage in a business which was soon destroyed 
by fire. After some months spent in a railroad construction party in 
southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico, he returned to Cincinnati 
in 1881 and was appointed custodian of the Society of Natural History. 
At the same time he served as Professor of Medical Botany in the Cin- 
cinnati College of Pharmacy. 
In 1884 he was married to Miss Sarah C. Stubbs, a teacher of sciences 
in the Cincinnati High School, who, with two sons, survives him. 
The position in the Society of Natural History was held until 1886, 
when Professor James was elected to the chair of Botany and Geology 
in Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Two years later a complete change 
in the faculty caused his removal, but he soon received the Professorship 
of Natural History in the Agricultural College of Maryland, where he 
remained one year. He was then, 1889, appointed Assistant Paleontolo- 
gist in the United States Geological Survey, where two years were spent, 
chiefly. in office work of a routine nature. 
In 1891, through an examination by the Civil Service Commission, he 
was appointed Assistant Vegetable Pathologist in the Department of 
Agriculture. While in this position his leisure hours were devoted to the 
study of medicine, which he had decided would be a more remunerative 
or, at least, a more permanent and certain means of support than pure 
science had proved to be, and in 1895 he graduated from the Medical 
School of Columbian University. After some months of hospital study 
and practice in New York and London he began the work of a practicing 
physician in Hingham, Massachusetts. From the exposure incident to 
that work, within a year he contracted pneumonia, which soon proved 
fatal. 
My personal acquaintance with Professor James covered the period of 
his residence in Washington, beginning in 1889. I was then impressed 
by his eager interest in everything scientific, and I still gratefully re- 
member his sympathetic and unselfish interest in a younger man. 
THE GEOLOGICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF JOSEPH FRANCIS JAMES * 
.Catalogue of the fossils of the Cincinnati group, Cincinnati, 1881, 27 pages. 
Two species of Tertiary plants: Science, vol. iii, April, 1884, pp. 488, 4384. 
Fucoids of the Cincinnati group: Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat, Hist., vol. vii, 1884-1885, pp. 
124-132, 151-166, with four plates. 
Are there any fossil algee?: Am. Naturalist, vol. xix, February, 1885, pp. 165-167. 
Evidences of beaches in the Cincinnati group: Science, vol. v, March, 1885, pp. 
ays] GSN) 
231-238 
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* Based on Mr Gilbert’s list in American Geologist, vol. xxi, pp. 4-7. 
