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 nu-ni aid ha-' \)vru KMidiTcd . ii- ix'Cc'ixH'd and llic liniilt.'(l resources 

 of llic I 'niwr-iu lia\r |)i\'WiiU'd a '-Mnipk'k' iiive>ti,L;ali(»n (if this 

 cliaractc'r : l>ul llu' I 'nixci'-^ilx aulln iritics arc considering the 

 providiiii^- of the necessary e<|ui|)nient of an accurate liydn iL;ra])hic 

 >urve_\' of all the Stations along" this coast. 



Xo \\(irk. covering" so large a field of marine biolog}" and 

 hydrography has heretofore been attempted an\-\vhere along the 

 thousands of miles <if the Eastern shores of the Pacific ( )cean, and 

 it is with no little pride and gratification that, with Ulrey, we find 

 the names of Davidson. Hooker. Carpenter, Watts, Keese, Baum- 

 gardt. Spalding, Alliot. Ritchie and others, gentlemen who have 

 become distinguished in Botany, Astronomy, Geology, Seis- 

 mology, Electricity, advanced Photography, Physics, Atmos- 

 pheric phenomena and the profound metaphysics of our inner 

 life, who have been officers, directors and leading members of 

 this Academy of Sciences, in whose Bulletins can be read their 

 papers which have attracted world-wide attention and com- 

 ment. 



rVA\MD WEST CUNNINGHAAI, a member of the Southern 

 -^-^ California Academy of Sciences, died May 11, 1916, at his 

 home in ]\[ontrose. Los Angeles County. 



He was born December 24, 1829, in Boston, Massachusetts, 

 as were all of his ancestors in the patronymic line, since the land- 

 ing in 1680 of his immigrant ancestor, Andrew Cunningham. 



His great-grandfather was a major in the military forces of 

 ^lassachusetts Bay Colony, and his grandfather, Andrew Cunning- 

 ham, served in the Revolutionary Army as a private in Captain 

 Thomas ]\Iayo's Company of Colonel Eleazer Brook's Massachu- 

 setts Regiment of Guards, and who, in 1793, was elected Captain 

 of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and w^as com- 

 missioned Depiity Quartermaster General of the First Division of 

 the Massachusetts Militia. In right of his services, David West, 

 on May 29, 1895, w'as elected a member of the California Society 

 Sons of the Revolution. 



His father, Andrew Cunningham, was also a member of the 

 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of wdiich, in 1790, he 

 was elected First Sergeant. 



He was also descended from John Alden, of the Mayflower, 

 and the atavism in him, inherited from his Pilgrim and Puritan 

 ancestors, was vehement and strenuous. 



His education was received in the public and private schools 

 of Boston, and in Harvard University, and, completing his studies 

 as a civil engineer, his entire life was devoted to this profession. 



