xXxxvi Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
During the last six months of his life he suffered acutely 
from organic diseases of the heart, and had to keep indoors 
much of the time. While reading a newspaper at his home, 
3747 Westminster Place, death suddenly overtook him. He. 
died Saturday evening, May 13, 1905, aged 69 years. 
The Rev. R. A. Holland, Episcopal Minister, officiated at 
the funeral and spoke with great feeling of Mr. Harrison’s 
career. ‘*‘His was the peulnole of an active life in which 
commendation of others had largely entered.’’ His pall- 
bearers included some of the most prominent citizens of St. 
Louis. 
He was President of the Society for the Prevention of Cru- 
elty to Animals, President of the Historical Society, Presi- 
dent of the Mercantile Library Association, President of the 
St. Louis Fair Association, President of the St. Louis Hos- 
pital Association, President of the Academy of Science of St. 
Louis and a member of the Academy for 48 years. He was 
a Mason, a member of the Society of Elks, of the St. Louis 
Legion of Honor, of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers, and a member of several other home societies. 
He had lived in St. Louis nearly all his life and was identi- 
fied with her best interests. Long amember of the Academy 
of Science, he took a leading part in many of its meetings, » 
donating many valuable specimens to its museum. In 1872 
he donated to the Society a fine photograph of Agassiz and a 
life-sized photograph of Dr. B. F. Shumard. 
On January 1, 1868, he read before the Academy an excel- 
lent article onthe age of the porphyries of Southeast Missouri, 
illustrated by a sketch plainly showing that the Porphyry 
was of older age than the Magnesian Limestones. 
In 1896 the Chinall of the Aéadoniy of Science of St. Louis 
recommended that, in view of his numerous donations to the 
Academy, he be elected a Patron. This was voted for unani- 
mously by the members of the Academy. This means a life 
membership with no payment of fees and is the highest honor 
that the Society could confer. 
Prof. C. M. Woodward of Washington University tells of 
