PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Fourth Series 

 Vol. VIII, No. 1, pp. 1-25, pi. 1 



IN MEMORIAM : THEODORE HENRY HITTELL^ 

 Born April 5, 1830— Died February 23, 1917 



The California Academy of Sciences was bereaved of one of 

 its most illustrious members in the death of Mr. Theodore 

 Henry Hittell, February 23, 1917. He would have been 87 

 years old in two months. For nearly 30 years he had been an 

 uncompromisingly loyal and assiduous member of the Acad- 

 emy, and in the future history of this institution, the value of 

 his personal attachment and fidelity will grow ever clearer and 

 stronger. 



What a span of life was his! He was born April 5, 1830, 

 and it is true to fact to say that the world has traveled farther 

 since that year than during all its previous recorded history. 

 In 1830 the echoes of the battle of Waterloo had hardly died 

 away. Napoleon had been dead scarcely nine years. Charles 

 X was King of France, but the Fates had decreed that within 

 the next few months he was to give way to Louis Philippe. 

 William IV this year succeeded George IV as King of England, 

 and Victoria's memorable reign was to begin seven years later. 

 The United States had but fairly started in the second half 

 century of its experiment as a Republic. Andrew Jackson was 

 President and the brewing of Nullification in South Carolina 

 was raising the shadow of the coming Rebellion over States' 

 Rights and Slavery. Railroads were in their infancy. The 



^ Read at the regular monthly meeting of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 August IS. 1917. 



June 17, 1918 



