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and crinoids. A number of his papers on the deep-sea corals of 
Florida, of the Caribbean Sea, and of the Gulf of Mexico have ap- 
peared in the museum publications. He had begun to work at 
the magnificent collection of haleyonarians made by the “ Blake ” 
in the Caribbean Sea, and had already made good progress with 
interesting genera Rhizocrinus and Holopus. 
_The titles of his memoirs indicate the range of his learning and 
his untiring industry. His devotion to science was boundless. A 
model worker, so quiet that his enthusiasm was known only to 
those who watched his steadfast labor, he toiled on year after 
year without a thought of self, wholly engrossed in his search 
after truth. He never entered into a single scientific controversy 
nor even asserted or defended his claims to discoveries of his own 
which had escaped attention. But while modest to a fault and 
plished, and the example he leaves to his successors. A. AG. 
Cambridge, Mass., July 31, 1880. 
Professor E. B. Anprews, of Lancaster, Ohio, one of the corps 
of geologists engaged since 1869 on the Geological Survey of 
Ohio, a e author of a very valuable volume among its final 
reports, as well as various geological memoirs, died on the 21st of 
August, in his sixtieth year. He was a graduate of Marietta 
College, Ohio, and its Professor of Geology from 1851 until he 
entered on his work in connection with the State Geological Sur- 
vey. During the five years previous to 1851 he was pastor of 
churches in Housatonic, Mass., and New Britain, Conn. Th 
State of Ohio owes much to him for his careful study of the coal 
