COUES
COULDOCK
J^i^c/lf C^Tu^-j.
research found a broad field and he pursued the
study with excellent results. In 1869 he was
made profe^^sor of zoology and comparative anat-
omy at Nojwicli universitj", Vt., but could not
hold the chair, as it interfered with his arm}-
duties. In 1873 he was appointed on the U.S.
northern boundary
survey coinmission,
as siu'geon and natu-
ralist. He completed
the scientific report
at Washington while
collaborator at the
Smithsonian institu-
tion. In 1876 he was
made secretary and
naturalist of the U.S.
surveys under Dr. F.
V. Hayden and edited
the reports and other
Ijublications of that
survey, besides con-
ducting zoological explorations and preparing
material for his own publications. In 1877
he was made jirofessor of anatomy in the
medical department of the Cohuubiau univer-
sity. This work was suspended in 1880, when
he was ordered on frontier duty in Arizona,
and in November, 1881, having returned to
Washington, he resigned from the army, finding
that the government would not further encour-
age scientific investigation on the imrt of an
officer under commission. He went back to his
desk in the Smithsonian institution, resumed
his chair of anatomy in the Columbian univer-
sity and also accepted the chair of biology in the
Virginia agricultural and mechanical college.
Columbian imiversity conferred upon him the
degree of A.M. in 1863 and that of Ph.D.
in 1869. He was elected a member of the
National academy of sciences in 1877, was
president of the American ornithologists' union
for some years, and of the Psychical science con-
gress of the World's congress auxiliary at
Chicago, 1893. He was elected to membership in
about fifty scientific societies in America and
Europe. His published works include besides
several hundred monographs and minor papers
in scientific periodicals: Key to North American
Birds (1872) ; Birds of the Northwest (1874) ; Field
Ornithology ("1874) ; Fur Bearing Animals (1877) ;
Monographs of North American liodentia (with
Allen, 1877); Birds of the Colorado Valley (1878);
Ornithological Bibliography (1878-80) ; Dictionary
of North American Birds (1882); Avifauna Colum-
biana (with Prentiss, 1883) ; Biogen, a Specidation
of the Origin and Nature of Life (1884) ; New Key to
North American Birds (1884) ; Tlie Dcemon of Dar-
win (1884); Buddhist Catechism {ISS5) ; Kuthumi
(1886) ; Can flatter Think? (1886; ; A Woman in the
Crtse(l887); Neuro- Myology (with Shute, 1887);
Signs of the Times (1888) ; Citizen Bird (with
Wright, 1897). He was in charge of the edito-
rial departments of general biology, comparative
anatomy and all branches of zoology for the Cen-
tury Dictionary, 1884-91, and edited various scien-
tific journals. He edited, with a copious ci'itical
commentary, the History of the Expedition of Lewis
and, Clark (1893) ; The Travels of Z. M.Pike (189."3);
the Journals of Alexander Henry and of David
Thompson (1897) ; the Journal of Jacob Fowler
(1898 ) : The Personal Narrative of Cliarles Larpen-
teur (1898) ; and wrote much on the early history of
the west. He died in Baltimore, Md.. Dec. 25. 1899.
COULDOCK, Charles Walter, actor, was born
in Longacre, London, England, April 26, 181o.
His father, who was a printer, died in 1819, and
the boy was placed under the care of his paternal
grandmother with whom he lived five j-ears.
He then entered his step-father's carpenter shop
and later served an apprenticeship in a silk ware-
house. At the age of sixteen he saw Macready
play in " Werner " and then determined to be-
come an actor, but family opposition caused hun
to postpone going on the stage till he was
twenty-one, and the
following year, by in-
vesting £10 in tickets
he secured the op-
portunity of appear-
ing as Othello at
Sadler's Wells thea-
tre, Dec. 13, 1836. at
the benefit of a Mr.
Burton. He was billed
as "Mr. Fortescue;
his first aj)peai-ance
in London,'" and
played Othello with
some success. In 1841
he joined a stock com-
pany at Gravesend;
went from there to Bath to support John Tan-
derhoff ; thence to Southampton, Sheffield, Edin-
burgh, Glasgow and Birmingham. He played
at Edinburgh for two seasons. At Birming-
ham on Dec. 26, 1845, he opened as Sir Giles
Overreach, and for four years played in that
city and Liverpool iinder the same manage-
ment, during that period supporting all the
famous actors of the day. On Sept. 15, 1849, he
sailed for the United States, where he supported
Charlotte Cushman, making his American debut
at the Broadway theatre. New York city, on
October 8, in the title role of "The Stranger."
When Miss Cushman returned to Europe in 1850
he decided to remain in America and became
leading man in the Walnut Street theatre, Phila-
