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JEROME HENRY KIDDER. 
until the volume of results would seem to warrant their 
being placed before the public has left us with only a few 
printed records of his fishery studies, but it is due to him to 
state that the high perfection attained in the methods of 
physical research employed by the Commission has resulted 
largely from his intelligent supervision. 
In the autumn of 1887, upon the death of Professor Baird 
and the appointment of Dr. G. Brown Goode as Commis¬ 
sioner of Fish and Fisheries, Dr. Kidder became the Assist¬ 
ant Commissioner, for which position he was well qualified 
by his administrative ability and his intimate acquaintance 
with the affairs of the Commission. Resigning that office, 
however, early in the following year, he was appointed, in 
March, 1888, Curator of Laboratory and Exchanges in the 
Smithsonian Institution, which post he held until his death, 
rendering most efficient service and becoming greatly en¬ 
deared to his associates. His surroundings were, moreover, 
entirely suited to his tastes, and his future seemed full of 
promise, with the prospect of again returning to the study of 
many early problems which his frequent change of duty had 
interrupted but not banished from his mind. His attachment 
for the Smithsonian Institution and appreciation of its objects 
were manifested in his will, by which the sum of $5,000 was 
bequeathed for the promotion of physical research. 
Dr. Kidder was a contributor to the National Medical 1 
Dictionary, compiled under the editorial supervision of Dr. 
John S. Billings, United States Army. His principal scien¬ 
tific papers have appeared as follows: Those relating to 
sanitary and kindred subjects, in the reports of the Surgeon 
General of the Navy from 1879 to 1882, the Proceedings of 
the Naval Medical Society for 1884, the reports of the Forty- 
eighth Congress, and the report of the Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion for 1884; on the natural history of Kerguelen island, 
in Bulletins Nos. 2 and 3 of the National Museum, published 
in 1875 and 1876; on fishery matters, in the reports and 
bulletins of the Fish Commission subsequent to 1883, and 
on chemistry and physics, in the publications of various 
scientific societies. 
