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803,501, an increase of a million and a 
quarter in a single year, and probably 
a larger number of persons than vis- 
ited any other institution in the world 
scientific entertainment 
for and 
struction. 
the collections, as there is no room for | 
them. The director properly 
urges the desirability of enlarging the 
very 
aquarium and providing laboratories 
for scientific work and men to carry it 
forward. 
FREDERICK 
in- | 
There were no increases in | 
Photograph by Gutekunst. 
BARKER. 
DEATHS AMONG AMERICAN MEN 
OF SCIENCE 
Stnce the death of Mr. Alexander 
Agassiz, in April, we have lost three 
other American scientific men officially 
placed among the hundred who are 
most eminent by their membership in 
the National of Sciences. 
They are Professor George Frederick 
Barker, General Cyrus Ballou Com- 
stock and Dr. Charles Abiathar White. 
Professor Barker, who was both a 
Academy 
