OBITUARY.

Frank Edward Zinkeisen of the class of 1889, was struck by a train on the Illinois Central road on Monday, and was almost instantly killed. Zinkeisen received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1890, and in 1893 received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Berlin.

He was the son of Hermann Zinkeisen, and was born in Milwaukee in April, 1867. He attended Hopkinson's school in Boston.

At the beginning of this year he was appointed instructor at the University of Illinois, but resigned after two weeks service, through despondency and nervous prostration. Zinkeisen was in Chicago at the time of his death.