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Born at Lockport (New York) on October 29th, 1831, he was 

 educated at Yale College and at the Universities of Berlin, Breslau, 

 and Heidelberg. Becoming Professor of Palaeontology at Yale in 

 1866, he held the chair until his death, and he was Palaeontologist 

 to the United States Geological Survey for many years. 



He organized various expeditions into the Bocky Mountains, 

 leading to the discovery of huge reptiles, toothed birds, and mammals 

 in the Eocene, Cretaceous, and Jurassic of the Western States. These 

 discoveries were described in various papers, chiefly in the American 

 Journal of Science (of which he was an Associate Editor) ; but the 

 most important records of his work are the two large monographs 

 on Odontornithes, published in 1880, and on Dinocerata, published 

 in 1884 ; a third on Sauropoda was just completed when the hand 

 of Death lay upon him. 



He was President of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science in 1878, and also of the National Academy of 

 Science for several years. 



Marsh was personally familiar to many of us, as he often visited 

 England, and attended various meetings of the British Association. 

 In one case he wrote on English geology, advocating the classification 

 of our Wealden as of Upper Jurassic age, rather than as Lower 

 Cretaceous. 



Charles Jules Edme Brongniart, Docteur-es- Sciences, was 

 elected a Eoreign Correspondent in 1888, and died on April 18th, 

 1899, at the comparatively early age of 40. 



He was Assistant at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, and 

 one of the chief European authorities on fossil insects, on which he 

 wrote a number of papers from 1876 onward. His principal work 

 was published in 1893, when he issued two large and important 

 volumes, both with atlases of plates. One of these is the 3rd vol. 

 of Studies on the Coal Measures of Commentry, devoted to the 

 Entomological Eauna. The other deals with the Eossil Insects of 

 Primary Times. It is sad that so distinguished a career should 

 have been thus cut short in full activity. 



Prof. Louis Lartet was elected a Foreign Correspondent in 

 1882, and died in 1899. 



He was the son of our former distinguished Foreign Member, 

 Edmond Lartet. In 1863 he assisted He Verneuil in two papers, 

 and from 1864 to 1868 he published several memoirs of his own, 

 chiefly on the Holy Land, leading up to his lengthy essay on the 



