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energetic man, grown portly with the years, but full strength and vigor. 

 He was on his way to "Stonccrop" his summer home at North 

 Haven, Me., and it was a sad surprise to hear of his sudden death 

 from apoplexy on .Tuly 27, 1917. If it had to he, it was a fortunate 

 ending of a full life. 



B. K. Emerson. 



FRAN'CIS HU:VIPHREYS STORER (1832-1914) 



Fellow in Class I, Srction 3, 1S57 



Francis Humphreys Storer, born in JVIarch, 18-32, was a son of David 

 Humphreys Storer, M. D. Harvard, 1825, from whom he inherited 

 an ardent disposition, keen powers of observation, and an absolute 

 sincerity in truth-seeking and truth-stating. His father belonged to 

 a remarkable group of pioneering Massachusetts naturalists who were 

 almost contemporaries in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. 

 David Humphreys Storer published a " History of the Fishes of Massa- 

 chusetts" in 1853-1867; George B. Emerson, Harvard A. B. 1817, 

 published "Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts" in 1846, a book which is 

 still a classic; Thaddeus William Harris, Harvard A. B. 1815, pub- 

 lished "Insects Injurious to Vegetation" in 1841, a pioneer entomological 

 treatise of high merit; Augustus A. Gould, Harvard A. B. 1825, 

 published in 1852 an important volume on the Molusca and Shells 

 collected by the United States Exploring Expedition; Charles Picker- 

 ing, Harvard A. B. 1823, published in 1848 "The Races of Man and 

 their Geographical Distribution" (Vol. IX of the publications of the 

 U. S. Exploring Expedition). 



Francis Humphreys Storer grew up in this atmosphere of scientific 

 research and publication, and was familiar with the scientific work of 

 his father and of his father's contemporaries. Because of his o\\ti 

 strong tendency to scientific studies his education did not follow the 

 route ordinarily prescribed for the sons of successful professional men 

 in Boston. He did not go to Harvard College, but to the new Law- 

 rence Scientific School, where he spent the year 1850-51. For the 

 next two years, he was by choice assistant to Professor .losiah P. Cooke 

 of Harvard College, and then at the age of twenty-one he accepted 

 an appointment as chemist to the United States North Pacific Ex- 

 ploring Expedition, and spent a year at sea and in mmierous Pacific 



