IN MEMORIAM 

 Willard Atherton Nichols 



Willard Atlierton Nichols, a member of this Academy of Sci- 

 ences, died on Auoust 22. 1921. at Redlands. California. 



Descended from ancestors who were of the very first, — from 

 the ^Mayflower down to the end of the Puritan immigration. — to 

 establish a new home and an unique government for themselves 

 upon the far East Atlantic coast, many of whose names are em- 

 blazoned upon the imi^erishable pages of our Colonial History, his 

 entire life from boyhood to the end, has run through all the phases 

 of romance, material activities and historic and scientific investiga- 

 tion. 



Graduating from Harvard University in 1865, he very rapidly 

 demonstrated his ability as a Civil Engineer, in which vocation he 

 was engaged during the succeeding twenty-five years. 



