Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28

es," of which Prof. David Starr Jordan
and DR.. Barton w. Evermann are the
joint authors.
Marshall Mcdonald won world wide
fame the inventor of improvements in
fish Matching devices. and not only fame.
but many medals from foreign societies
and international fishery exhibitions. He
invented the automatic Matching jars that
are in use throughout the United States.
Europe and Japan. in 1851. and in the
year following developed the tidal APP
paratus for Matching and floating eggs of
cod, haibut and other marine species.
Mcdonald was a native of Romney, w.
Va, and was born June %. 1888. He was
a graduate of the Virginia Military In
stitute and served in the Confederate
army as officer of engineers and ordnance.
becoming chief engineer of North Carolina
in 1863. After the war he served four
teen years as professor at the Virginia
Military Institute. In 1879 he became
Virginias commissioner of f1shes, ana In
1879 he became connected with the United
States fish commission. Before his pro-
motion to the office of fish commissioner
he was chief of the division OF FISH cul-
ture. Col. Mcdonald died While IN ONCE
in 1895 and was succeeded by Capt. John
j. Brice, a retired naval officer. who In
turn was succeeded by Mr.. Bowers three
years later.
The present organization of the burea u
of fisheries is as follows: George Nj.
Bowers commissioner; Hugh NJ. Smith.
deputy commissioner, Irving NJ. Dunlop.
chief clerk John w Titcomb. chief OF
the division of fish culture: Barton w.
Evermann. chief of the division OF scien-
tific inquiry. Alvin B. Alexander, chief of
the division of statistics and methods:
Hector Won Bayer architect and engineer:
j. Frank Ellis. superintendent OF car and
messenger service, and William P. Tit
comb, accountant.
DR. HUGH MCCORMICK SMITH, dep
l. uty commissioner, is a Washingtonian
nv birth and was educated at the public
and high schools of this city and In the
medical department of Georgetown Uni
yersity. lie was born November u. 1862
entered the fish commission in 1885 an
assistant and through various promo
tions attained his present office in 1903.
combining with it's duties those as editor
of the bureau.
He was director of the fish comission's
Woods Hole laboratory in 1901 and 1902
and was one of the special agents in
charge of fishes in the tenth census. He
has general charge of the biological sur
yey of the Philippine waters and is ia
miliar with fishes not only from scien-
tific standpoint but from every other
standpoint, having visited many foreign
countries to study fisheries and repre-
scented the United States at various fish
cry congresses. He has contributed to
popular as we'll as scientific magazines,
and no more entertaining sketch of the
bureau of fisheries is Obtainabie than that
which he prepared for the international
congress on fisheries last summer. DR..
Smith was the secretary general of this
congress and had a large share in ar
ranging for its meeting in Washington.
having been an American delegate to the
congress at Vienna three years before
and there extended the invitation of this
government to have the meeting here.
He is former president of the American
Fisheries Society. a member of numer-
Gus scientific societies. and has honorary
membership in the London Society Tor
Biologico- Chemical Research and OF the
Imperial Russian Fisheries Society.
Among other honors that have been paid
him is that of having the smallest fish