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After accepting this position, although the greater part of 
his time and energy was given to work in vertebrate palze- 
ontology for Professor Marsh, he continued his investiga- 
tions ininvertebrate zodlogy as long as his health permitted. 
In the summer of 1872,1n company with the present writer, 
he visited St. George’s Banks in the Coast Survey Steamer 
“Bache,” on a dredging expedition, the results of which 
were published in the Transactions of the Connecticut 
Academy. Healso published papers on myriapods, a fossil 
arachnid and isopods. His last and most important pub- 
lished works are a report on the Marine Isopoda of New 
England and the adjacent waters, and on the Isopoda of the 
Blake dredgings on the eastern coast of the United States. 
The former, his only completed work, is a systematic and 
accurate monograph, one of the most important contribu- 
tions to our knowledge of the Isopoda, and will long 
remain a standard authority and a manual for the study of 
that group on our coast. 
These publications establish his reputation as a zodlo- 
gist, but his best work and highest attainments were in 
the department of vertebrate palzontology. Remarkable 
logical powers, an unbiased mind, and years of accurate 
observation, had given him a truly wonderful knowledge 
of vertebrate osteology. Under his hand the broken and 
disarranged bones of an unknown carpus or tarsus seemed 
to fall into their proper places by magic. But his knowl- 
edge was not one of details alone; he had a truly philo- 
sophical grasp of the bearing of facts on evolution and 
classification ; and only the few who knew his attainments 
can appreciate how much palzontological science would 
have been advanced had he been able to publish his 
observations and conclusions. He was not a scientific 
specialist only, but took a deep and practical interest in 
politics and other questions of the day, and his peculiarly 
open mind, wholly untrammeled by bias or preconception, 
gave his views and arguments on any subject originality 
and value. 
Mr. Harger never enjoyed robust health, and in 1879 he 
was attacked by a cardiac trouble which increased from 
