Obituary. 565 



Many of the plates illustrate the huge prehistoric statues on 

 Easter Island and the scenery of the Galapagos. 



Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Cidaridae. 50 pp. 

 4to, 44 plates. 190V (with H. L. Clark). 



A visit to the Great Barrier "Reef of Australia in the steamer 

 "Croydon," during April and May, 1896. 55 pp., 42 plates, 1898. 



The Islands and Coral Reefs of Fiji. 167 pp., 120 plates. 1899. 



Hawaiian and Other Pacific Echini. 88 pp. 4to, 17 plates. 

 1908 (with H. L. Clark). 



Echini : The Genus Colobocentrotus. 42 pp. 4to, 49 plates. 

 1908. 



Hawaiian and Other Pacific Echini. The Echinothuridae. 63 

 pp. 4to, 30 plates. 1909 (with H. L. Clark). 



The Tortugas and Florida Reefs. 27 pp. 4to, 12 plates and 

 maps, 1883. 



The Porpitidse and Velellitse. 16 pp. 4to, 12 plates. 1883. 



A. E. Verrill. 



Professor Robert Parr Whitfield was born at Willowvale, 

 Oneida Co., N. Y., on May 27, 1828, and died at Troy, N. Y., on 

 April 6, 1910. 



Professor Whitfield's parents were English, and when young 

 Whitfield was about seven years of age, in the fall of 1835, 

 the family went to England. From England the Whitfields 

 returned to America in 1841, finally locating at Whitestone, adjoin- 

 ing Utica, N. Y. Here Prof. Whitfield's scientific life began, 

 and for a time, consonant with the promiscuous impulses which 

 first start the naturalist in his course of observation, he turned 

 his attention to many fields of natural history. In his twentieth 

 year Prof. Whitfield married. For nine years he continued his 

 vocation as a maker of philosophical instruments at Utica, but, 

 through his membership in the Utica Society of Naturalists, was 

 constantly associated with students of nature. 



During these years he became acquainted with Colonel Jewett, 

 and thus came in contact with a representative collection of 

 fossils and shells, and the beginnings of his interest in paleon- 

 tology, which finally excluded all other phases of scientific activ- 

 ity, w T ere laid. 



Through Colonel Jewett he became employed in the service of 

 the New York State Survey under Prof. James Hall, and in 

 Albany his scientific influences were strengthened, educational 

 facilities increased, and a continuous intercourse with workers 

 and leaders in science began. Meek, Hunt, Logan, Billings, 

 Leslie, Safford, Agassiz, Conrad, Hayden, were a few names 

 among the crowd of visitors to Prof. Hall's home, and in this 

 multitudinous circle Whitfield's acquaintance with men of science 

 was greatly extended. 



His work was felt and illustrated in the publications of the 

 Survey. He became lecturer in the chair of Applied Geology, 

 at the Troy Polytechnic Institute, and in March 1876 resigned 

 his position in Albany, and came to the American Museum of 

 Natural History, where he installed the great Hall Collection of 

 Fossils. 



