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iinmed lately assnreil, and subsequently he ac- quired a wide reputation as a playwright. He was married in June. 1S39, to Anne, daughter of Robert Powell of Portsea. England, and his son, Charles Melton Walcot (q.v.) became an actor. His principal roles, played in Mitchell's Olympic and Wallack's theatres, New York city, 1841-46, include: Lord Allcash in Auber's opera of "Fra Diavolo"; the title rules in "Don Cesar de Bazan" and " Charles the Xllth "; Sir Charles Coldstream in "Used Up"; Touchstone in "As You Like It"; Bob Acres in " The Rivals"; Goldfinch in "The Road to Ruin"; Graves in " Money "; Sir Andrew Aguecheek in " Twelfth Night "; Slender in " The Merry AVives of Wind- sor": Sir Harcourt Courtly in "London Assur- ance": Tony Lumpkin in "She Stoops to Con- quer ": Citizen Sangfroid in " Delicate Ground "; Tom Tittler in " The Knights of the Round Table "; Capt. John Smith in "Pocahontas" and others, lie adapted the following plays: "Iloboken"; " Dombey and Son "; " David Copperfield "; " The Haunted Man," and is the author of: Richard 3d (travesty): One Coat for Two Suits; A Good Fel- low; Hiaicatha (travesty); 'Washington: or the Spirit of '76; Nothing to Nurse; Customs of the Century, as well as the songs: My Own Little Rose (1838), and My Love is a Sailor Boy (1854). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 10, 18G8.

WALCOT, Charles Melton, Jr., actor, was born in Boston, Mass., July 1, 1840: son of Charles Melton and Anne (Powell) "VValcot. He was graduated from St. John's college, Fordham, N.Y., in 1858, having while there appeared in amateur theatricals with such success that he de- cided to become a professional actor. Like his father, he first appeared in Charleston, S.C., playing the part of Montano in " Othello." After engagements in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Rich- mond, Va., he was character actor for the Win- ter Garden, New York city, 1861-62. his roles in- cluding Pete in "The Octoroon"; Uncle Tom in •* Uncle Tom's Cabin "; was leading man at Laura Keene's theatre in New York in 1862-63, and played Octavius Caesar in "Julius Caesar " (1864) and Horatio in " Hamlet" (1865). He was mar- ried. May 31. 1863, to Isabella, daughter of John and Mary (Talbot) Nickinson of New York. John Nickinson was a well-known comedian, and his daughter became associated with her husband in his dramatic career. Mr. Walcot was leading man at the Walnut Street theatre, Piiiladelphia, Pa., 186.5-79. playing a variety of parts and also acting as stage manager of the company, 1874- 70. He subsequently toured in " The Banker's Daughter." Esmeralda," and in .support of Joseph Jefferson, Lawrence Barrett and others, and in 1887 V)ecame leading man in Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Theatre stock company.

WALCOTT, Charles Doolittle, geologist and paleoMtuU)gist, was born in New York Mills, N.Y., March 31, 1850; son of Ciiarles Doolittle and Mary (Lane) Walcott; grandson of Benjamin and Irene (Doolittle) Walcott and of Thomas and Mary Lane, and a descendant of Jonatlian Walcutt of Salem, Mass., who died, Dec. 16, 1699, and his wife. Deliverance Putnam. He attended the pub- lic schools at Utica, N.Y., manifesting at an early age a predilection for nature-study, particularly for geological research; was engaged in the latter in central New York, 1870-76, and in 1876 became assistant to the New York state survey. He was assistant geologist to the U.S. geological survej', 1879, making the Cambrian rocks and faunas of the country his special subjects of inquiry, and presented the results of his researches before the International Geological congress, London, Eng- land, in 1888. He was married. June 22, 1888, to Helena Burrows, daughter of SiJnej' and Mary (Holmes) Stevens of Rochester, N.Y. He was paleontologist in charge of invertebrate paleon- tology, 1888-93; geologist in general charge of geology and paleontology, 1893-94, and in 1894r was appointed director of the U.S. geological sur- vey. He was honorary curator of the department of paleontology of the U.S. National Museum, 1892-97, and from 1898; and at the head of the National Museum with the title of acting assis- tant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1897-98, contributing to the collections of the National Museum many specimens of extraordi- nary interest, among them an assemblage of fos- sil jelly fishes, which lived not less than 20,000.000 years ago. He was elected secretary of the Car- negie Institution of Washington in 1902. He re- ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from Ham- ilton in 1897, from the University of Chicago in 1901, from Johns Hopkins in 1902, and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1903. He was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of many other scientific organizations. His pub- lications include: The Trilobite (1881): Paleon- tology of the Eureka District (1884); The Cam- brian Faunas of North America (1884); TJie tauna of the Loicer Cambrian or Olenelhis Zone (1890); Correlation Papers (1891), and many re- ports and papers on geological and paleontologi- cal subjects.

WALCUTT, Charles Carroll, soldier, was born at Columbus, Oliio, Fd). 12, 1838; son of John Macy and Mariel (Broderick) Walcutt, and grand- son of William Walcutt of Loudoun county, Va. His grandfatlier was a veteran of the Revolution- ary war, and his father of the war of 1812. He was graduated from the Kentucky Military in- stitute in 1858; became surveyor of Franklin