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...quickly put it down again. "My God!" cried Dr. Norris. "It's Mrs. Peabody. I knew her well." Few minutes later Mrs. Peabody's brother, famed Poloist Tommy Hitchcock Jr., claimed her body and that of her husband, Manhattan Architect Julian L. Peabody. Other notable victims: Professor Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland of Williams College, in charge of a student paleontological expedition to Yucatan; three Williams seniors, including Manhattan Socialite William Dwight Symmes; Rev. Dr. Francis L. Frost, longtime rector of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Staten Island. Notable survivors included two daughters of Charles Stinson Pillsbury, Minneapolis...
...there was graduated from Edinburgh University a young man named William Abbott Herdman. He devoted his life to Science and made Ichthyology his specialty. His rise was steady. In 1881 he became Professor of Zoology at Liverpool University. He devoted not only his talents but his very considerable fortune to Science. In 1904 he was President of the Lennean Society. In 1907 he was President of the Zoology Section of the British Association. He founded the Marine Biological Station at Port Erin, Isle of Man, and also the Sea-Fish Hatchery at Piel. In 1909 Harvard made him a Doctor...
...suffered from heart trouble. His daughter Winifred was to be married to a London physician. He went to London to attend the wedding. The wedding took place as scheduled except that no guests were present but members of the immediate families. The reason was that the night before Dr. Herdman had died of heart trouble in a London hotel...
Died. William Abbott Herdman, 65, famed Ichthyologist (see Page...
...Charles Gage Brenneman of Ava, III.; Edgar Ray Broenniman, of New York; Geoffry Chamberlain, of Cambridge; Walton Dismukes, of Santa Ana, Cal.; Gerald Edward Donovan, of Auburndale; Arthur Bernard Gunnarson, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Alfred Janney Johnson, of Columbus, O.; Murray Webb Latimer, of Clinton; S. C. Palmer, and George Herdman Rutherford, of Lancaster...