vard’s course in economic botany, Ted was close to the students 
in their preparation of the exhaustive term papers required in the 
course. Finally, when Prof. Mangelsdorf took half a year’s leave 
in the 1940’s, Ted taught the whole course, thereafter continuing 
to share the teaching with Prof. Mangelsdorf until his retirement 
in 1958. Long after his retirement he continued to offer a number 
of lectures in the course. 
Ted was married to the late Julia Faulkner in 1934 until her 
death in 1949. During this period, they lived happily with their 
books in an apartment near the Botanical Museum in Cambridge 
and spent summers in their beautiful home, “‘The Carrying 
Place’ in Surry, Maine, to which Ted retired as his permanent 
residence a few years ago. He filled his days as never before with 
multitudinous interests ranging from horticultural clubs and 
Grange to local history, Boy Scouts, to serving on the board of a 
New England private preparatory school, to duties connected 
with local botanical societies and to editorial work on Economic 
Botany, Rhodora, and the Botanical Museum Leaflets. He kept 
up an active membership in the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, the Botanical Society of America, the 
Society of American Plant Taxonomists, Sigma XI, Gamma 
Alpha, the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine, the American 
Institute of Biological Sciences and the New England Botanical 
Club, the treasureship of which he held for more than twenty 
years. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of Lon- 
don in 1972. 
He kept well abreast of world affairs and progress in botany. 
His knowledge of current literature was astounding. On his 
frequent trips to Cambridge, he still had time for friends, col- 
leagues and students. Coming from an unusually long-lived fam- 
ily, he looked forward to many years of activity and productivi- 
ty, and he was not disappointed in this hope. His record of 
accomplishments is truly outstanding, even though it cannot 
wholly be measured in tangible units. 
One of Ted’s non-botanical pursuits was the study of Shakes- 
peare, and even after his retirement north to Maine, he remained 
an active member of Cambridge’s Shakespeare Society. I have 
often heard him quote in casual conversation a snatch from the 
great English master, but now it is my turn to say that every time 
that I think of what Ted Hill has done for economic botany and 
the Botanical Museum I recall a passage from King Henry VI 
that seems to epitomize his contributions: ‘‘Sir, he made a 
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