HEMIPTERA. VAN DUZEE. 59 
IN MEMORIUM—HENRY HEMPHILL. 
It is with great sorrow that we have to record the passing 
away of Mr. Henry Hemphill, a life member of this Society. Mr. 
Hemphill was born in Wilmington, Deleware, in 1830 and died in 
Oakland, California, July 24th, 1914, at the age of 84. He came 
to California about the year 1864 and soon formed an acquaintance 
with the late R. E. C. Stearns ; an acquaintance which ripened into 
a life long friendship, accentuated by their mutual interest in the 
study of Mollusks, especially those of the west coast. Mr. Hemp- 
hill soon became one of the best authorities in that branch of natur- 
al history and material of his collecting is to be found in most of the 
large museums of the world. Personally Mr. Hemphill was one of 
the kindest and noblest hearted of men, beloved by all who knew 
him. His death is a great logs. 
Mr. Hemphill was a mason by trade and many of the older 
San Diego brick buildings are his handiwork. He built for himself 
a brick house on Third Street, San Diego, where he lived for many 
years surrounded by his large collection of shells. Finally his 
daughter prevailed upon him to move to Oakland, California, and 
live with her and there he spent the last five years of his life. He 
was a very active man, tireless in the pursuit of his favorite study 
and only last year, 1913, although eighty-three years of age, he 
took a vacation trip to the Grand Canyon for pleasure and shell- 
hunting. In the care of his shells he used arsenic and this poison 
effected his face causing him great suffering and finally his death. 
Mr. Hemphill had a world-wide acquaintance and friendship 
among those interested in his favorite pursuit and there were few 
eminent conchologists with whom he was not in correspondence. 
He was one of the last of the group of naturalists who in the last 
half of the nineteenth century made the faunal wealth of California 
So well known. 
