Stephen Rand, Pay Director, U. S. N., on duty at the general storekeeper's office in Washington, D. C., will be advanced to the rank of rear admiral and placed on the retired list, May 11, after forty years of honorable and continuous service.
Doctor Addison H. Foster died at Oak Park, Ill., March 3, 1906. The cause of his death was cerebral hemorrhage.
Secretary, Maitland C. Lamprey, Concord, N. H.