656 HORATIO HOLLIS HUNNEWELL. 



scholarly editing of Volumes III and IV of its Memoirs, bear witness to 

 the use he made of the greater leisure of later years. 



General Rockwell was a member not ouly of this society, but of the 

 Geological Society of France, the Boston Natural History Society, the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of various 

 social clubs in Boston. 



His relations with his fellow men were marked by a dignity of man- 

 ner, a self-respecting modesty, and his cheerful disposition made him a 

 welcome member of the various societies to which he belonged. 



Born in Norwich, Conn., Oct. 15, 1834, he died suddenly at New 

 Haven on Dec. 24, 1903. The funeral services were held at Trinity 

 Church, Boston, December 28. 



HORATIO HOLLIS HUNNEWELL. 



Horatio Hollis Hcnnewell was elected a resident Fellow of the 

 Academy, May 28, 1872, in class 2, section 2 (botany). He died on 

 May 20, 1902. He was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, on July 27, 

 1810, and was the son of Walter Huunewell, of the fifth generation of 

 the New England Hunnewells, a graduate of the Harvard class of 1787, 

 and a physician of standing highly respected in the community, and of 

 Susanna Cooke. 



Adeline Fowl, a niece of Mrs. Walter Hunnewell, still remembered 

 for her beauty and charm of manner, had married Samuel Welles, the 

 head of the Paris banking-house of Welles & Company. At the sug- 

 gestion of Mrs. Welles young Hunnewell was sent to Paris at the age 

 of fifteen to learn the banking business in her husband's house. He 

 applied himself to this with such assiduity that at the end of ten years 

 he was admitted a partner in the bank and married a daughter of John 

 Welles of Boston, a cousin of Samuel Welles. Mr. Hunnewell's career 

 now seemed assured, and he looked forward with complacency to passing 

 his life in Paris in the active pursuit of business, but the financial crisis 

 of 1837 destroyed credits and compelled the winding up of the affairs 

 of John Welles & Company. During the Revolution of 1830 Mr. 

 Hunnewell, as a member of the Garde Nationals, carried a musket and 

 helped protect his employer's bank. Nearly seventy years later he was 

 gratified by receiving from the Government of France a medal com- 

 memorating his services as a soldier. 



