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DYAR, Harrison Gray, hiologist, was born in N\'\v Y..ik i-ity. Feli. 14, lS(Ui; son of Ilarrisoii dray (l>orn in 1S0.">) and Eleonora R. (Hannuni) Dyar, and grandson of Jeremiah Dyar of Boston, .M;iss. (born in ITTl). He was gi-aduated from the Miuisjicluisetts institute of technology in 1889 and afterward studied biology and received the degrees of A.M. and Pli.D. in the department of pure science. Columbia college, in 1894. In 1897 lie was appointed custodian of lepidoptera in the department of insects at the United States na- tional museum, Washington, D.C. He contrib- uted articles on the larvie of lepidoptera, to all American and several British entomological mag-azines, and on bacteriology to scientific peri- odicals.

DYCHE, Lewis Lindsay, naturalist, was l>orn in Berkley Springs. Ya.. March '20. 18.i7; .son of Alexander and Mary (Reilly) Dyche. He was taken to Kan.sas by his parents in 1857 and jias-setl Ids boyhood among the Indians as a trap-

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He had not learned to read when seventeen years old. but was versed in the habits and haunts of wild animals. He entered the State nor- mal school, Emporia, Kan., in 1874, and was graduated in 1877. He was graduated at the Kansas state uni- .rsity, A.B. andB.S. 1884, A.M. in 1886, and M.S. in 1888.- He was assistant profes-

lss4_sr,; professor of zoology and comparative anatomy, 188G-90, and professor of zoology and taxidermist and curator of mammals and birds in the museum from 1890. He was a member of the K!ansas academy of science, of the Bio- l<»gical .society of \Yashington and of the American ornithologists" union. In 1899 he had '•ompleted twenty .scientific expeditions cover- ing every point on the North American continent ever reached by civilized man. gmd his collection of large North American mammals killed by his own hand included every kind of large mammal indigenous to the continent, except the musk ox. Tlie result of his various journeys enricheil the collection deposited in the University of Kansas and added to its value at least §150,000. He was married, Sept. 4. 1884, to Ophelia Axtell. His lecture subjects include: C'ftrnp Fires of a Natural- ist in Alaska; Grefnland and the Arctic lieyions; Wild Animals and Their Haunts; The Arctic Highlanders and the Problem of the Pole.

DYE, William McEntyre, soldier, way b<,in in \Yasliington. Pa., Jan. 26, 18:^1. He was gradu- ateil at the U.S. military academy in 185;J, was assigned to the 8th artillery and was promoted 1st lieutenant, i856, and captain, 1861. He was appointed colonel of the 20th Iowa volunteers, Aug. 25, 1862. served in Missouri and Arkansas, 1862-63; was brevetted major for gallantry at Vicksburg, lieutenant- colonel, May 28, 1864, for action while leading a brigade in the Red River campaign, and brigadier -general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for services during the war. In September, 1864, he led a brigade in the expe- dition against Mobile, and was brevetted colonel in the regular army for services in the Mobile campaign. After the war he was acting assistant provost-marshal-general of the Northwest, and was promoted major of the 4th U.S. infantry, Jan. 14, 1866. After .serving on garrison duty he was honorably discharged at his own request, Sept. 30. 1870. He was appointed to the Egyptian service in 1873, and was wounded while acting as assistant to the chief of staff in the Abyssinian expedition. He returned to America in 1879, was chief of police of Washington city, B.C., 1883-86, and afterward chief of the examining division of the pension office. Later he became Minister of War to the king of Korea. He is au- thor of: Military Service vnder the Khedive (1880). He died in Muskegon, Mich., Nov. 13, 1899.

DYER, Alexander Brydie, soldier, was born in Ricliiuond, Ya., Jan. 10, 1815. He was gi'adu- ated at the U.S. military academy in 1837, and was assigned to ordnance duty, serving in Fort Monroe on garrison duty and in the Seminole war, 1837-38. He was on ordnance duty at vari- ous U.S. arsenals, 1838-46, chief of ordnance to the army of occupation, New Mexico, 1846-48, serving on the staff of Gen. Sterling Price, and on Feb. 4, 1847, was wounded in two separate en- gagements and was brevetted 1st lieutenant and captain for his services. He was commandant of the armory at Springfield, Mass., 1861-64, and in charge of the ordnance bureau in Washington, D.C, as chief of ordnance with the rank of briga- dier-general, 1864-74. He was brevetted major- general " for faithful and meritorious services during the war." He was the inventor of the Dyer projectile for cannon. General Dyar died in Washington, D.C., May 20, 1874.

DYER, David Patterson, representative, was boni in ll.Miry county. Ya., Feb. 12, 1838. His parents removed to Mi.ssouri in 1841, and he was educated at St. Charles college. He became a lawyer at Bowling Green. Mo., in 1859, and in 1860 was elected district attorney for the county. He was a representative in the .state legislature, 1862-65, meanwhile recruiting the 49th Mi.ssouri volunteers and serving as its colonel. He was