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FREDERICK WILLIAM, an American biologist; born in Middletown, Coun., July 8, 1858; was graduated at New York University in 1878 (LL. D., 1897); became connected with the government service in 1878; and was apfor the 10th census, 1879. He next served pointed expert special as custodian of the collections of the United States Fish Commission at the Berlin Fisheries Exhibition in 1880. He was curator of the department of mammalia at the United States Museum in 1883-1892, and was executive curator in pointed expert special agent on fisheries 1892-1897. In the latter year he was made head curator of the Department of Biology at the United States National Museum. During the exposition in Nashville in 1897, Omaha in 1898, and Buffalo in 1901, he was the representative of Smithsonian Institution. He was the author of "Review of the Family of Dephinidæ"; etc. He died in 1914.