Biographical Notices of 1905

THE list of deaths reported during the year 1905 comprises the following names (the figures in parentheses indicating the year in which the persons named were elected to membership:- Honorary Member.-Dr. Bruno Kerl. Members and Associates.-Charles Christy Adams (1903), John Wesley Anderson (1898), William Burton Barber (1901), Thomas A. Bennett (1900), Luke W. Bryan (1901), Edwin S. Daugherty (1905), William Scott de Camp (1875), George H. Eldridge (1889), B. W. Frazier (1871), John Broome Guinn, Jr. (1897), Dana C. Irish (1900), Harry Hugh Lee (1899), William Alfred Lindsay (1902), Roland C. Luther (1884), James MacNaughton (1890), Gordon McLean (1899), Herbert Holmes McNamara (1902), August R. Meyer (1886), William Orr (1897), William J. Parker, Jr. (1898), Joseph Phillips, Jr. (1895), Charles O. Ripley (1902), Emmerich J. Schmitz (1883), Ludwig Philip Seeger (1900), Jacob Johnston Sperry (1900), Gustavus H. Stoiber (1902), William L. Study (1905), Robert Macnair Wilson Swan (1900), Richard Henry Terhune (1886), Joseph Thiry (1892), John N. Tisdale (1903), Alfred Isham Totten (1897), Walter H. Virgoe (1902), Charles H. Wellman (1890), Harvey L. Williams (1903). Of these, Dr. Bruno Kerl and Prof. B. W. Frazier have been made the subjects of special Biographical Notices in the Bi-Monthly Bulletin 1 the former in No. 4, July, 1905, p. 743, and the latter in No. 5, September, 1905, p. 1097. Concerning the remainder of the list, the following paragraphs comprise such information as could be obtained by the Secretary. Charles Christy Adams, who had been a member of the Institute since 1903, died in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 31. 1905. He was born in New York City, July 13, 1849, and received his technical training at the Colorado State School of