Wells, M. J. Smith and S. J. Kelly, the last named as members of the present Council, also made appropriate addresses. It was resolved that in the passing away of Dr. Joseph R. Owens, Mayor of Hyattsville, we have lost a conscientious official, a valued associate and a personal friend, and the citizens of Hyattsville at large, as well as his official associates, have experienced a bereavement, the effects of which they will ever feel. ------- Dr. Asa S. Linthicum, class of 1852, a former member of the Board of County Commissioners of Anne Arundel county, died at his home, in Jessup, Md., Sunday, March 28, 1909, from apoplexy, aged 78. About 25 years ago Dr. Linthicum retired from the active practice of medicine to engage in iron ore mining. Dr. Linthicum's wife, who died about five years ago, was Miss Nettie Crane, of Clifton Springs, N. J. Interment was in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore. ------- Dr. John Bailey Mullins, class of 1887, of Washington, D. C., a member of the American Medical Association and the American Society of Laryngology and Otology, formerly of Norfolk, Va., died at his home, in Washington, D. C., from cerebral hemorrhage, February 11, 1909, aged 42. Resolutions on the death of Dr. John Bailey Mullins: WHEREAS, It has been God's purpose to suddenly call hence one of our most useful and beloved members; be it _Resolved_, By the Washington Branch of the General Alumni Association of the University of Maryland, that we are deeply grieved by the premature death of our honored associate. By his death the public, especially those worthy of charity, whom he was ever ready to serve, have lost a most useful citizen, the medical profession a skilled and painstaking physician and surgeon, and the University of Maryland an able and active worker. And be it further _Resolved_, That the sympathy of this Association be extended to his daughter, whom he loved before all else on earth, and to whom he was ever a dutiful father. And be it further _Resolved_, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of our Association and a copy of the same be sent to the parent Alumni Association in Baltimore. Committee--I. S. Stone, William L. Robbins, Harry Hurtt, Monte Griffith, president; W. M. Simpkins, secretary. ------- Dr. Samuel Groome Fisher, class of 1854, of Port Deposit, Md., died at the home of his son, in Port Deposit, February 22, 1909, aged 77. For more than 50 years Dr. Fisher was a practitioner of Chestertown, Md. -------