Uriah Pierson James. 
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culiporoids of the vicinity. In this he was assisted by his 
son, Prof. Joseph F. James. This paper was published in 
three successive numbers of the Journal of the Cincinnati 
Society of Natural History (October 1887, January and April 
1888). The sheets were afterward collected and issued in a 
separate pamphlet. This monograph contains descriptions of 
sixty-four species, with a number of varieties, and remarks 
upon each one and upon synonymy. Only one new variety 
was described, as both authors considered that too many 
species and genera had already been made. 
Mr. James was essentially a self-educated and a self-made 
man. His early schooling was such as could be had at a 
country school, attended at intervals and for a few years only. 
He was neither a rapid nor a prolific writer, but his descrip¬ 
tions bear the marks of care and pains-taking and are gener¬ 
ally acknowledged to be full and accurate. He was a life 
member of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, and at 
one time a member of the American Association for the Ad¬ 
vancement of Science. His membership in the latter was dur¬ 
ing the early days of that association. 
Of the man it may be said that he was simple-hearted and 
kind to all with whom he came in contact, ever ready to 
oblige, and ever reluctant to ask the granting of a favor. His 
domestic life was a happy one. He married, in 1847, Miss 
Olivia Harriet Wood, a daughter of an English lady of Cin¬ 
cinnati. His widow, two sons and three daughters survive 
him, a third son having died in infancy. All who knew him, 
knew him to be an honest man, and “ To be honest, as this 
world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” 
One of his sons carries on the father’s book business in Cin¬ 
cinnati, while the younger one hopes to carry on his geological 
work. 
Mr. James was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, and a 
granite boulder, brought by the glaciers from the Canadian 
highlands and lodged on a hill-side of his place at Loveland, 
will mark his last resting place. 
J. F. J. 
List of the Writing's of U. P. James. 
1871—Catalogue of the Lower Silurian Fossils, Cincinnati Group, 
found at Cincinnati and vicinity—within a range of forty or fifty 
miles—pp. 14. 32 new species proposed. 
