Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-14
BAN ON SUPERSTITION
AT THE BANQUET BOARD
Dinner in Honor of DR.. Gill De-
cember 13, With 113
Guests.

The seventy-fifth birthday anniversary
of Dr. Theodore n. Gill was celebrated
by 113 Of his associates at dinner last
night at the Cosmos Club. DR.. Gill Is
regarded as one of the best known ichthy-
ologists and biologists of the country
and was founder of the Cosmos Club.
He actually completed his seventy-fifth
year March 81 last, but a banquet was
organized in his honor by number of
friends who disbelieve in the thirteen
superstition" and it was decided to hold
it Friday, the 18th, this tuxtaposition of
dates in December being found the most
suitable for the occasion. AS there were
many more than thirteen Of DR.. ellis
friends who desired to be present, the list
of guests grew to 113.
Admiral Stockton Presides.
Admiral Charles H. Stockton, u S. N,
presided, and DR.. l.. o. Howard acted as
POSTMASTER. DR.. Edward M. Dawson read
many letters of congratulation to DR.. Gill
from all parts of the world. Addresses
were. made by William H. Dali, DR.. Her
bert Putnam, DR.. Charles E. Munroe, DR.
Henry F. Osborn, DR.. William B. King,
DR. w. j. Moore and DIR. j. B. Moore.
A paper by DR.. Gill was read by DR.. B.
w. Evermann, chief Of the division OF
Alaskan fisheries of the Department OF
fish commissioner, read to the banquet
ers DR.. David Starr Jordan's estimate OF
DR.. Gill as an ichthyologist from DR.. Jor-
dams book, History Of Ichthyology.'
The banquet table was decorated with
large bowls of living fish and with shells.
fishnets and other articles connected with
DR.. Gill's lifelong work
List of Guests.
Among those present We're:
William Stone Albert. George n. Acker,
NJ. E. Allies, George w. Baird, Job
Barnard, William Barnum, Paul Bartsch,
Marcus Benjamin. Rogers Birnie, James
II. Blount, Chaplin Brown, Barry Buckley,
III. K. Bush Brown, Frank K. Cameron,
Frank G. Carpenter. Thomas L. Casey,
Thomas NJ. Chatard, Austin H. Clark,
Frederick V. Coville. H. ]. Crosson. Will
liam H. Dali, Henry E. Davis, Edward
Dorset. Irving H. Dunlap. Charles R.
Eastman. John Joy Edison, William S.
Eichelberger, Barton w. Evermann,
David Fairchild, Charles J. Faulkner. E.
A. Fay, A. X. Fisher, William ]. Flather,
James Jan les M. Flint Duane F,! E; Fox, R. T.
G. Glover. Bernard r. Green. Gilbert
H. Grosvenor, Alexander B. Hagner,
Arnold Hague. Baird Halberstadt. George
E. Hamilton. w. M. Hays. D. L. Hazard.
F. D. Head. John B. Henderson. jr:, F.
W. Hodge, H. L. Hodgkins. r. r. Hoes.
w. H. Holmes. w. ]. Holland, N. Mon
roe Hopkins. l.. o. Howard. N. Mon
eson, E. N. Janson, r. S. johnson. A. F..
A King. William B. King, Martin A.
knapp. George NJ. kOber, r. e. Lee.
George w. Littlehales, F. A. Lucas. E. A.
Mearns. j r. Marshall. George c. May
nard, r. f. b. Mckinney, John Bassett
Moore, Charles E. Munroe, Henry F. Os-
born, r. E. Pairo T. S. Palmer, f. w.
Parker, John D. Patten. l.. II. Perlman,
Clifford Pinchot. Herbert Putnam, Rich
ard Rathbun. Charles w. Richardson. F.
A. Richardson, Sterling Ruff1n. E. A
Schwartz. H. A. Seymour. Daniel K.
Shute, T. w. Smile. Erwin F. Smith.
Hugh NJ. Smith, Alpheus Snow. Wendell
P. Stafford; Leonhard Stejneger, Thomas
G. Steward. Charles H. Stockton. S. W..
Stratton, Frank Sutton, William B.
Thompson. John w. Titcomb. Frederick
w. True, John Van Rensselaer,, George
Tulley Vaughan, T. Wayland Vaughan.
Charles K. Wead, David White, John G.
Wilson, Maxwell Van Il. Woodruff, r. S.
Woodward and H. c. YarrOw.