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HENRY CARRINGTON BOLTON. 



Daniel S. Martin. 



Dr. Henry C. Bolton, our late associate and ex-President, 

 was born in this city, January 28, 1843, ^^^^ ^t his death in 

 Washington, November 19, 1903, had therefore not completed 

 his 6 1st year. After graduating at Columbia University in 

 1862, he went to Europe, and studied first in Paris, subse- 

 quently at Heidelberg under the celebrated Bunsen, and later 

 at Gottingen, where he received his doctorate of philosophy 

 in 1866. During these years he also travelled extensively, 

 adding to his favorite specialty of chemistry that store of varied 

 culture that made him such an attractive companion and broad- 

 minded scholar and gentleman. 



On returning to New York, he naturally associated himself 

 as a member with the Academy (then the Lyceum of Natural 

 History), and speedily became active in its meetings. In 1872 

 he was made assistant in analytical chemistry in the Columbia 

 College School of Mines, and then head of the laboratory of 

 quantitative analysis ; this position he held until 1877, when he 

 was chosen Professor of Chemistry and Natural Sciences in 

 Trinity College, at Hartford, Conn. 



These were years of constant activity in the Academy and in 

 many scientific associations in and about New York. In 1874 

 he was one of the special committee who formulated the report 

 on the change of name of the Society, from the Lyceum to the 

 Academy. In 1876 he was elected Corresponding Secretary, a 

 position for which he had peculiar fitness, from his elegant 

 handwriting and his familiarity with the languages and the scien- 

 tific men and institutions of P^urope. 



In 1873 h^ ^^'^s o^"*^ of the most active in planning and 

 arranging for the "Centennial of Chemistry," held at North- 



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