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Exhibition in London, and rendered efficient service as exec¬ 
utive officer and deputy of the Commission. His remarkable 
aptitude for exposition work was first demonstrated on that 
occasion. 
Shortly after his return from London, in 1883, he was 
appointed chief of the Division of Fisheries in the Fish Com¬ 
mission, and also an honorary curator in the National Mu¬ 
seum. In 1888 he resigned his place in the Commission and 
became a regular member of the Museum staff. In this ca¬ 
pacity he served for the remainder of his life, much of his 
time being occupied in work for the several expositions in 
which the Smithsonian Institution has participated. He was 
chief executive officer for the Institution at Louisville in 1884, 
at New Orleans in 1885, at Cincinnati in 1888, at Chicago in 
1893, and at Atlanta in 1895, and for three years past has 
also acted as editor of the Proceedings and Bulletins of the 
National Museum. 
He was a man of great force of character, and recognized 
as one of the most efficient of exposition administrators. His 
unselfish devotion to his work and his absolute trustworthi¬ 
ness were appreciated by all who knew him. 
He published a considerable number of important papers 
upon the habits of fishes and the methods of the fisheries. 
He made extensive collections upon the Atlantic coast and 
the Great Lakes, and discovered many species of fishes and 
invertebrates new to science. He was one of the best authori¬ 
ties upon the natural history of our anadromous fishes. 
He was also a skillful and ingenious fishculturist, and ren¬ 
dered excellent service in the early experimental work in 
the propagation of the shad and in the establishment of the 
cod-hatching station at Gloucester, Massachusetts. 
He was a man of the purest personal character and deeply 
interested in philanthropic work, and the time which was his 
own was devoted chiefly to efforts for the moral and material 
good of others. His reputation as a naturalist would un¬ 
doubtedly have been more widely established had he confined 
his efforts entirely to research. He chose, however, to give 
