820 CHARLES ROBERT SANGER. 



At first it was hoped that he would take charge of the teaching of 

 industrial chemistry in Harvard University; and in 1902 he went 

 abroad for the summer semestre to fit himself better for this work. 

 There he studied at Dresden with Professor Hempel, but with little 

 result beyond a very pleasant and long continued friendship, for it 

 was found that the great labor involved in the directorship rendered 

 it impossible for anyone to give more than a single course in addition, 

 and in his case this could be no other than qualitative analysis. He 

 was not convinced of this impossibility however, until for several years 

 he had made a gallant effort to carrj^ the industrial chemistry on his 

 already overburdened shoulders. 



His uncommon administrative ability made him very useful on 

 committees, especially in the Administrative Board of the Lawrence 

 Scientific School, of which he was one of the pillars, but this also 

 robbed him of much time, which would othei-wise have been devoted 

 to research. 



The care and thoroughness shown in his work appeared also in his 

 amusements, and made him an unusually skilful photographer and 

 successful gardener. 



On December 21, 1886 he married iVlmira Starkweather Horswell, 

 who died January 6, 1905, leaving three children, Mary (married to 

 H. A. Bellows), Eleanor Sherburne and Richard. On May 2, 1910 

 he married Eleanor Whitney Davis, the daughter of Andrew Mc 

 Earland Davis, who survives him. 



He was a member of the German Chemical Society, the Society 

 for Chemical Industry, and the American Chemical Society (Vice- 

 president of the New England Section 1902-1903). He was elected 

 a fellow of our Academy, January 14, 1891; served on the C. M. 

 Warren Committee from 1904, until his death; and was Chairman 

 of the Publication Committee, that is editor of the Proceedings, from 

 1909 to 1910. His service in this last capacity showed his usual effi- 

 ciency. Its short duration was due to the fact that he was already 

 stricken with the disease, which led to his death, in fact the most 

 prominent symptom of this was his nervous eagerness to add new 

 undertakings to the load which already weighed him down, for in 

 addition to our Proceedings he took sole charge of raising money for a 

 new laboratory at Cambridge, and, when the American Chemical 

 Society met in Boston and Cambridge in 1909, he was most active 

 in arranging for its reception, and organized an interesting exhibit 

 of the chemical activities of Harvard College. This was the finishing 

 touch however, and at the end of that academic year he was so com- 



