PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. V, pp. 373-429. February 4, 1904. 



NOTICES OF DECEASED MEMBERS. 



Marcus Baker. 



I 849- I 903. 



Marcus Baker, assistant secretary of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution, died on December 12, 1903. Mr. Baker was born Sep- 

 tember 23, 1849, ^^^ ^^^ therefore fifty-four years of age. 

 His childhood was spent on a farm in Michigan and his youth 

 in the city of Kalamazoo. His early education was obtained 

 at the common schools of that city. He attended Kalamazoo 

 College for two years, finishing his college course by two years 

 at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 

 1870. Later in life he attended the law course at Columbian 

 University in Washington and received from that institution the 

 degree of LL.B. in 1896. 



His first work after graduating from the University of Michi- 

 gan was as computer upon the Nautical Almanac. He was 

 afterwards professor of mathematics in Albion College in 

 Michigan for a year and then spent two years as instructor in 

 mathematics in the University of Michigan. In 1873 he re- 

 ceived an appointment on the United States Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, and with that organization he was associated for thir- 

 teen years. His work during this period consisted in explora- 

 tions of the Alaskan coast, in which he was associated with Dr. 

 William H. Dall, in the preparation of the "Alaskan Coast 

 Pilot" and in geographic publications relating to that territory. 



In 1882 he was stationed at Los Angeles, California, where 

 he was engaged in the establishment of a first-class magnetic 

 observatory. His last work upon the Coast and Geodetic 



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