Jan. 28. Dr. Patrick J. McGrath, a member of a prominent family in Dublin, Ireland, died today at Bellevue Hospital, New York. He sailed on one of the Peary expeditions to the Polar regions, as medical adviser; enlisted in a volunteer regiment during the war with Spain, and also served throughout the Philippine campaign. Shortly before his death he had received from Washington, D. C., an appointment as surgeon in the canal zone in Panama. Jan. 28. The _Irish-American_, New York City, of this date, has the following: “President Roosevelt in sending some details of his Irish pedigree to the American-Irish Historical Society ... has made known some information not generally current, though often desired. To his credit be it said, that he always was proud of his Irish blood, and from the very outset of his public career, years ago, vaunted it as one of his most cherished possessions. He has been following this up by the nomination to public office of candidates with decidedly Hibernian patronymics. W. D. Murphy of this city, it is said, is to be the new Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and a diplomat named O’Brien, from the Northwest, is to be sent as Minister to Denmark. ‘Think of old Brian, war’s mighty lion,’ who smote the Danes at Clontarf and drove them into the sea, looking down from his celestial mansion above and seeing one of his descendants made ambassador to his old enemies from the greatest nation of the world, a nation to the prosperity and prestige of which his countrymen have contributed so much! Mr. Roosevelt in his genealogical list included the O’Briens. He must have had some idea of the poetical and historical retributions of the case when he thought of one of the great Munster families for the Republic’s representative to Denmark.”