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drowned in Flambeau river, Wisconsin, on the 18th day of August. 

 1S77. He had been an assistant on the Geological Survey of that 

 State for about four years. 



Stephen Reed died on the 12th day of July, 1877. at Pittsfield, 

 Massachusetts, at the age of seventy six years. He investigated the 

 drift of Western New England, and is known for his early account of 

 the drifted bowlders across the central part of Berkshire. 



William M. Gabb was born in Philadelphia, on the 20th day of Jan- 

 uary, 1839, and died at the same place, on the 30th day of May, 1878. 

 In 1862 he was appointed as a palaeontologist/ to the Geological Sur 

 vey of California, where he described and illustrated sixty plates of 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils. He contributed largely in the Trans 

 actions of the American Philosophical Society, and in the Proceedings 

 of the Acadenrv of Sciences, of Philadelphia. He was a man of great 

 energy, with a clear mind, and habits of careful investigation. 



Charles Fredric Hartt was born at Fredericton, New Brunswick, 

 August 23, 1840, and died at Rio Janeiro, March 18, 1878. His first 

 geological work was done in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and yet 

 it was so well done that the eminent author of the Acadian Geology 

 seems to have adopted it without hesitation. He was appointed one 

 of the geologists of the Thayer Expedition to Brazil in 1865, and 

 returned in 1866. In 1867 he went again to Brazil, to return in 1868. 

 In 1868 he was appointed Professor of Natural History in 'Vassar Col- 

 lege. In 1870 he published a work on the Geology and Ph\ T sical 

 Geography of Brazil, and the same year returned to that country. In 

 1876 he was made Chief of the Geological Commission of the Empire of 

 Brazil, which position he held at the time of his death. 



Frank Howe Bradley was born at New Haven, Connecticut, Sep- 

 tember 20, 1838, and was accidentally killed from the falling of a bank 

 in a gold mine near Nacoochee, Georgia, on the 27th of March, 1879. 

 In 1867 he was an assistant on the Geological Survey of Illinois, and 

 in 1869 on that of Indiana. In 1872 he was an assistant on the Geo- 

 logical Survey of the Territories, under Dr. F. V. Hayden. From 1869 

 to 1875 he was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University 

 of Tennessee. He was the author of several papers upon geological 

 subjects, and described a few species of fossils. 



Benjamin F. Mudge was born August 11, 1817, and died Nov. 21, 

 1879. He resided at Manhattan, Kansas, and did much to make 

 known the geology of that State. 



