1136 Scientific News. [Dec. 
—By the death of Prof. William Stebbins Barnard, on the 13th 
of November, in his thirty-ninth year, American Science has lost 
a biological investigator and teacher of unusual ability, training, 
and originality. 
r. Barnard was born at Canton, Ill., on the 28th of February, 
1849. After a year at the University of Michigan, he entered 
Cornell University at its opening in 1868. While a student he 
paid special attention to Natural History, and was selected by 
the late Prof. Chas. Fred. Hartt to assist in his expedition to 
Brazil. In that country Dr. Barnard made important explorations 
and collections, and some of his specimens are in the museum of 
Cornell University. After graduating in 1871, he spent two years 
under the best teachers in Germany, and on taking the degree of 
Ph.D. at Jena, in 1873, received from Haeckel a personal certifi- 
cate that in his studies he had “shown the highest degree of 
excellence.” Returning to Cornell, he made many observations 
and drawings of the Protozoa, on which group he gave courses 
of lectures at the University, at the Anderson School on Penikese 
Island, in the summer of 1874, and at the summer schools in 
Normal and Peoria, Ill., in 1875. From 1876 to 1878 he was 
professor of natural science in the Oskaloosa (Iowa) Normal 
School, and then for two years gave at Cornell University the 
instruction in entomology and invertebrate zoology during the 
absence of Prof. J. H. Comstock as United States entomologist. 
Under Professor Comstock’s successor he became an assistant 1n 
the entomological division of the Bureau of Agriculture, and 
during the following five years made valuable observations upon 
destructive insects, and devised several appliances for spraying 
insecticides upon the cotton-worm and other forms; his appara- 
tus and experiments are described in the department reports and 
_ bulletins, and were highly commended by the chief of the divi- 
sion: 
During the last two years he was professor of natural history 
in Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, whose faculty and su 
dents at his death adopted resolutions expressing their affection, 
esteem, and sense of irreparable loss. 
Besides his contributions to the U. S. Entomological Reports, 
Dr. Barnard’s publications were as follows: ee 
I. “Observations on the Membral Musculation of ems 
tyrus (orang) and the Comparative Myology of Man and 
Apes.” Amer. Asso. Proc., August, 1875, pp. 30, two plates. 
2. “ Observations on the Development of Didelphys vg? T 
ana” (the opossum). /éid., pp. 2, one plate. a i 
3- “ Catalogue of the Invertebrates” (excepting insects) & 
Ward’s natural science establishment, octavo, pp. 96, eight pla 
Rochester, 1876. 
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New Rhizopods,” pp. 3, one plate. Amer. Quar. Mier re 
_ Sscopical Journal, 1879. 
