NOTES. 
A meETING of the Chicago Academy of Sciences was held on 
June 11th, in honor of the memory of its late Trustee, Director of 
its Museum, and Secretary, Dr. William Stimpson. A sketch of 
the life of Dr. Stimpson was given by President Foster. Letters 
were read from Prof. Joseph Henry, Mr. George C. Walker and 
others, and remarks were made by members of the Academy, 
bearing witness to the great and faithful labors of Dr. Stimpson 
in the cause of science and in the work of the Academy. Mr. E. 
W. Blatchford offered a series of resolutions in honor of the mem- 
ory of Dr. Stimpson and providing for the publication, in the 
Transactions of the Academy, of a Memoir on his life, and the 
entering of the following tablet on the records: 
IN MEMORIAM 
WILLIAM STIMPSON, M.D., 
Born FEBRUARY 14TH, 1832 ; 
Diep May 26TH, 1872. ° 
At a meeting of the Essex Institute held on June 12th, Presi- 
dent Wheatland alluded to the death of Dr. Stimpson and called 
attention to the fact that his first experience in dredging, in which 
artment of investigation he afterwards became so noted, was at 
a field meeting of the Essex Institute, of which he was a member. 
a Putnam remarked on the great loss which science had met. 
with in the death of Dr. Stimpson, and on his suggestion a commit- 
oo appointed to express, by a series of resolutions, the loss 
Much the Institute experienced by the decease of its late member. 
Mi abstract the following notice of Major Lyon from the 
AR Courier Journal” of June 25th : — 
fe Paint S. Lyon, one of the most noted gel : 
Paralysis: ine his residence in J effersonville, Ohio, yesterday 0 
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