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entertainment, and equally ready to take part in any or all of them, 

 the "moroseness" which many who did not know him well regarded 

 as characteristic was there shown to be merely skin deep and easily 

 punctured. Some of his wittiest and most brilliant work was done in 

 the plays which he wrote for the club, and it is a pity that there was so 

 small a public to enjoy them. But those who had the privilege will 

 never forget it nor the affection in which they held him. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Academy March 14, 1900, and a 

 Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1904. An 

 account of his life and work, with tributes from various sources, was 

 published in the Technology Review for November, 1918, Vol. XX, 

 pp. 615 ff. 



Edward Robinson. 



CHARLES PICKERING BOWDITCH (1842-1921). 



Fellow in Class III, Section 2, 1892. 



Charles Pickering Bowditch was born in Boston on September 30, 

 1842, and died in Jamaica Plain on June 1, 1921. He was the son of 

 Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch and Lucy O. (Nichols) Bowditch. He 

 entered Harvard College in 1859 and was graduated in the Class of 

 1863 after having been suspended for his participation in some college 

 pranks. He received the Master's Degree in 1866. 



As a member of the Presidential party he witnessed Lincoln's First 

 Inauguration on March 4, 1861. He served in the Civil War as 2d 

 Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, and Captain in the 55th Massachusetts 

 Volunteer Infantry and later he was Captain in the 5th Massachusetts 

 Volunteer Cavalry of which his brother, Henry, was a Major. 



He spent the year 1865 in the oil regions of Pennsylvania and from 

 1865 to 1872 he was in charge of the Estate of William W. Wadsworth 

 at Geneseo, New York, and from 1866 to 1872 he was Trustee of the 

 Estate of Allen Ayrault at the same place. He returned to Boston in 

 1872 and, except for periods of travel in Europe, the Orient, Mexico, 

 Central America, and California, he resided in Boston until his death. 



Mr. Bowditch's grandfather, Nathaniel Bowditch, was the Fifth 

 President of the American Academy, serving from 1829 to 1838 and 

 succeeding John Quincy Adams as President. ■ His father, J. Inger- 



