SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

Washington, U.S.A.

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY.

April 17, 1899.

The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution has re-
ceived with deep regret the announcement of the death on the
eighteenth of March, 1899, of

OTHNIEL CHARLES MARSH, LL.D., Ph.D.,

Professor of Paleontology in Yale University, former Presi-
dent of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Correspondent of
the Institute of France, Associate of the Royal Academy of
Sciences, Brussels, etc., etc.

The death of one so long and justly eminent will be
deeply felt throughout the ranks of scientific workers, and
the Secretary begs leave to convey to you an expression of
his own sincere sorrow and that of the Institution.

The President and Faculty of Yale University,

New Haven,

Connecticut.