750 The American Naturalist. [Augmt, 
and graduated at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1875. He 
went to California the same year, and entered the University of Cali- 
fornia at Berkeley, as a special student in Natural History, and soon 
afterward received the appointment of student assistant in natural 
history and geology, and preparator for Prof. Joseph LeConte. He 
was at various times a draughtsman in the office of the Surveyor- 
General of the United States, in San Francisco, and was also 
Curator of the San Francisco Microscopical Society, and lectured 
on microscopic zoology at this time. During his residence in Cali- 
fornia he also taught in the public schools. In 1879 he went to 
Europe, and studied for several months in Leipzig. Since 1880 he 
has resided part of his time in California and partly in Massachusetts, 
his health being very poor. During these latter years he has fre- 
quently contributed to the leading magazines, scientific publications, 
and weekly papers, including The Nation, The Open Court, etc., and 
The American Naturalist. The latter for April 1879 contained a 
highly interesting article by him on '* Animal Music : its Nature and 
Origin." He inherited much of his father's genius and ability ; he 
was artistically skilful with the pencil, and his communications to the 
public exhibit a cultured and philosophic mind, which needed only a 
more robust physical body to command a prominent position. He 
was regarded as one of the most brilliant and popular students in col- 
lege, and took a high rank in his scholarship. At the time of his 
death, which was attributed to Bright's disease and some affection of 
the heart, he was only 34 years old, and was connected with the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. — R. E. C. S. 
Clark University, Worcester, Mass.— The folio 
preliminary announcement of the Department of Biology : 
C. O. Whitman, A.M., Ph.D., acting professor of Animal Morpho 
Warren P. Lombard, A.B., M. D., assistant professor of Physio 
Franklin P. Mail, A.B. 
, M.D., adjunci 
t profess 
or of Anatomy. 
Henry H. Donaldson 
, A.M., Ph.D., 
, assistai 
cit professor of Neuro- 
logy. 
