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OBITUARIES. DR. WILLIAM JACOBHOLLAND, an Associateof the Union since 1599, and Director Emeritus of the Carnegie Museum at , died on December13, 1932, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. While always interested in birds Dr. Holland, we believe, made but one contribution to ornithologicalliterature--a report on a collectionof east African birds (Ann. Ca•½gi½Mus., III, Aug. 1905). His researcheswere almost entirely in other fields, notably in entomology--especiallythe lepidoptera, and in vertebrate paleontology,in which branchesof zoology his name was familiar throughout the scientific world, while his broad learning and culture made him a prominent figure in educational and intellectual activities not only in Pittsburgh but in the country at large where he was associatedwith the leading scientificand historical societies. He was born at Bethany on the island of Jamaica, on August 16, 1545, of Moravian parentage, his father having come to the West Indies as a missionary,from Salem, North Carolina, wherethe family had long resided. He was educated at the Moravian Collegeand Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1569. Later he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and entered the Presbytery,becoming pastor of the BellefieldPresbyterian Church, in Pittsburgh. In the meantimehe had engagedin teachingand in medical studies, while his spare time was devoted to natural history. He was zo51ogiston the U.S. Eclipse Expedition to Japan in 1587 and in 1591, became Chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania (later ) which positionhe held, until, at the requestof his friend ,he assumedthe directorshipof the recently foundedCarnegie Museum, in 1895. Here he was able to give his scientific activitiesfull sway and publishedlargely in his chosenfields, his 'Butterfly Book' and 'Moth Book' becoming standard works. He also directed the paleontologicalexpeditions of the museumin the western states and among his discoverieswas the great , Diplo- doc• carncgiei,one of the outstanding features of the museum, and of which replicaswere presented to many of the leadingmuseums of the world. Dr. Holland was also the founder and first president of the American Associationof Museumsand took great interest in museumadministration. His scientificattainments were widely recognizedboth by honorary de- greesfrom many of the universitiesof America, as well as St. Andrewsof Scotland, and by decorationsfrom many of the countries of Europe. There have been few careersso varied and so extended as Dr. Holland's; standingas he did as a leaderin scientificresearch and in the cultural life of his city for over fifty years.--W. S. JOHNDY•OND, JR., an Associateof the American Ornithologists'Union since 1929, and a leading conservationistof Louisiana, died in New Orleans, Nov. 12, 1932. He was the son of State Senator Dymond and Nancy 261

Elizabeth Cassidy Dymond and was born in 1867 in New York City, where he spent his early childhood. He graduated from Tulane Univer- sity in New Orleansin 1888 with the degreeof A.B., and receivedhis degreein law from the sameinstitution two yearslater. Upon graduation he enteredon the practiceof his profession,and at the time of his death was seniorpartner in the firm of Dymond and Levy. He successfully representedLouisiana in its contestwith Mississippiover the State bound- ary line and took part in a number of suits involving trapping interests. From 1920 to 1924 he representedPlaquemines Parish in the State legis- lature. In addition to various business and social activities he was an ardent sportsman,one of the organizersof the Delta Duck Club, and servedas its presidentuntil his death. He wasalso a past presidentof the Louisiana chapter of the Izaak Walton League.--T. S. P. JOSEPHEDWARD HALLINEN, an Associateof the AmericanOrnithologists' Union since1919, died after a brief illnessin the hospitalat Hobart, Okla., Feb. 13, 1932, in the 73rd year of his age. He was born at Champaign, Ill., March 23, 1859,and at an early ageseems to havedeveloped an interest in natural history. In 1891 and 1892 he servedas assistanton the Illinois Relief Map Commission,in the latter year as assistantin the State Labor- atory of Natural History, and during the s•mmer of 1893 as an assistanton the U.S. Fish Commission. He graduatedfrom the University of Illinois in 1894with the degreeof B.S. and was a graduate student in biology at the University of Chicago during the followingyear. During the next five yearshe taught sciencein the townshiphigh schoolat Ottawa, Ill., and was scienceteacher in the high schoolat Fort Smith, Ark., from 1900 to 1902. In 1902-03 he was a tutor in physicsat the University of Oklahoma,and in 1916 taught biologyfor one year in the University of Chicago. With the opening of the Kiowa-Comanchearea in June, 1901, Mr. H•lllnen went to Oklahomato take part in the drawingof lands at E1 Reno and took up a homesteadof 160 acres about 3 miles southeastof Coopertonclose to the Wichita Game Preserve. Here he lived the life of a reclusefor 31 years until his death, entirely alone and without making any effort to cultivate or improve his property beyond building a single room housein which he lived, workedand kept his library. He maintained his homesteadas a wild life refuge. He once granted permissionto a neighborto pasture a little stock on it but even this privilegewas discon- tinued when he found that the animals had eaten some plant which he had not named. In later years he acquiredan automobilewith which he did hisbusiness in neighboringtowns. He acquireda library of some5000 booksand pamphlets,and subscribedto 20 or more magazines. He pre- pared a work on the birds of Oklahoma,but this is still unpublished,and apparently he never publishedany of his observationswhile a residentof the State. His library, includinga set of 'The Auk,' has been acquiredby the library of the University of Oklahomaat Norm•.n.•T. S. P.