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research found a broad field and he pursued the study with excellent results. In 1869 he was made profe^^sor of zoology and comparative anat- omy at Nojwicli universitj", Vt., but could not hold the chair, as it interfered with his arm}- duties. In 1873 he was appointed on the U.S. northern boundary survey coinmission, as siu'geon and natu- ralist. He completed the scientific report at Washington while collaborator at the Smithsonian institu- tion. In 1876 he was made secretary and naturalist of the U.S. surveys under Dr. F. V. Hayden and edited the reports and other Ijublications of that survey, besides con- ducting zoological explorations and preparing material for his own publications. In 1877 he was made jirofessor of anatomy in the medical department of the Cohuubiau univer- sity. This work was suspended in 1880, when he was ordered on frontier duty in Arizona, and in November, 1881, having returned to Washington, he resigned from the army, finding that the government would not further encour- age scientific investigation on the imrt of an officer under commission. He went back to his desk in the Smithsonian institution, resumed his chair of anatomy in the Columbian univer- sity and also accepted the chair of biology in the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college. Columbian imiversity conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1863 and that of Ph.D. in 1869. He was elected a member of the National academy of sciences in 1877, was president of the American ornithologists' union for some years, and of the Psychical science con- gress of the World's congress auxiliary at Chicago, 1893. He was elected to membership in about fifty scientific societies in America and Europe. His published works include besides several hundred monographs and minor papers in scientific periodicals: Key to North American Birds (1872) ; Birds of the Northwest (1874) ; Field Ornithology ("1874) ; Fur Bearing Animals (1877) ; Monographs of North American liodentia (with Allen, 1877); Birds of the Colorado Valley (1878); Ornithological Bibliography (1878-80) ; Dictionary of North American Birds (1882); Avifauna Colum- biana (with Prentiss, 1883) ; Biogen, a Specidation of the Origin and Nature of Life (1884) ; New Key to North American Birds (1884) ; Tlie Dcemon of Dar- win (1884); Buddhist Catechism {ISS5) ; Kuthumi

(1886) ; Can flatter Think? (1886; ; A Woman in the Crtse(l887); Neuro- Myology (with Shute, 1887); Signs of the Times (1888) ; Citizen Bird (with Wright, 1897). He was in charge of the edito- rial departments of general biology, comparative anatomy and all branches of zoology for the Cen- tury Dictionary, 1884-91, and edited various scien- tific journals. He edited, with a copious ci'itical commentary, the History of the Expedition of Lewis and, Clark (1893) ; The Travels of Z. M.Pike (189."3); the Journals of Alexander Henry and of David Thompson (1897) ; the Journal of Jacob Fowler (1898 ) : The Personal Narrative of Cliarles Larpen- teur (1898) ; and wrote much on the early history of the west. He died in Baltimore, Md.. Dec. 25. 1899. COULDOCK, Charles Walter, actor, was born in Longacre, London, England, April 26, 181o. His father, who was a printer, died in 1819, and the boy was placed under the care of his paternal grandmother with whom he lived five j-ears. He then entered his step-father's carpenter shop and later served an apprenticeship in a silk ware- house. At the age of sixteen he saw Macready play in " Werner " and then determined to be- come an actor, but family opposition caused hun to postpone going on the stage till he was twenty-one, and the following year, by in- vesting £10 in tickets he secured the op- portunity of appear- ing as Othello at Sadler's Wells thea- tre, Dec. 13, 1836. at the benefit of a Mr. Burton. He was billed as "Mr. Fortescue; his first aj)peai-ance in London,'" and played Othello with some success. In 1841 he joined a stock com- pany at Gravesend; went from there to Bath to support John Tan- derhoff ; thence to Southampton, Sheffield, Edin- burgh, Glasgow and Birmingham. He played at Edinburgh for two seasons. At Birming- ham on Dec. 26, 1845, he opened as Sir Giles Overreach, and for four years played in that city and Liverpool iinder the same manage- ment, during that period supporting all the famous actors of the day. On Sept. 15, 1849, he sailed for the United States, where he supported Charlotte Cushman, making his American debut at the Broadway theatre. New York city, on October 8, in the title role of "The Stranger." When Miss Cushman returned to Europe in 1850 he decided to remain in America and became leading man in the Walnut Street theatre, Phila-