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EDITORIAL GLEANINGS. 



Professor Othniel Charles Marsh, of Yale University, died at New 

 Havers March 13th, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. ,He was born at 

 Lockport, New York, in 1831, and was graduated at Yale in I860. He 

 subsequently studied several years under leading specialists in Europe, 

 returning to New Haven in 1866, where he has since occupied the chair of 

 Palaeontology. He has long been recognized throughout the world as one 

 of the leading authorities in vertebrate palaeontology. His explorations in 

 various parts of the West for fossil vertebrates began in 1868, and in sub- 

 sequent years he amassed the immense collections which have been so long 

 famous. The results of his investigations have been published in a long 

 series of papers and memoirs, numbering nearly three huudred titles, 

 covering a period of more than twenty-five years. His unrivalled collec- 

 tions of fossils, as yet only partly worked up, he presented to Yale Uni- 

 versity, with a considerable endowment for carrying on and publishing the 

 results of further investigation of this great mass of material. Prof. Marsh 

 is well known to ornithologists for his numerous publications on fossil 

 North American birds, including his great quarto memoir ' Odontornithes : 

 a Monograph of the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America,' published 

 in 1880. Probably five-sixths of the known extinct North American birds 

 have been described by Prof. Marsh. His scientific work brought him 

 many honours both at home and abroad. In 1878 he was chosen President 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and from 

 1883 to 1896 he was President of the National Academy of Sciences 

 (The ' Auk '). 



We regret to announce the death of Joseph Wolf, eulogized by Land- 

 seer himself as " without exception the best all-round animal painter that 

 ever lived." Many obituary notices have appeared in our current press, 

 but a particularly full and excellent resume of his life's work has appeared 

 in the ' Field,' from which we extract the following : — 



•'Born at Moerz, near Coblenz, in 1820, the son of a farmer, his 

 powers of observation and delineation of animal life were made manifest at 

 an early age, and his talent as a draughtsman soon obtained employment 

 for him. 



