Report of the Committee on Necrology

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Your committee has learned of six deaths of members during the year, all teachers and all well past mid life. The report will consider the deceased members in alphabetical order. No. 4 OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 143 GEORGE ELLETT COGHILL was born at Beaucoup, Illinois, March 17, 1872, and passed away July 23, 1941, in his 70th year at his home in Gainesville, Florida. Mr. Coghill came up through the local schools and studied from 1891-94 at nearby Shurtleff College, Upper Alton; then transferred to Brown University where he graduated in the Classical course in 1896. He followed this with a year of graduate work in the conservative theological school and then shifted to the open spaces of New Mexico where he spent five months in thought and observation which gave a lifelong bent to his work and philosophy. He afterwards registered at the University of New Mexico and completed the work for the degree of M. S. in 1899; returning to Brown he completed his Ph. D. work in 1902. Three honorary Sc. D. degrees have been given him, Pittsburgh in '31, Denison in '33, and Brown in '34.