MEMOIR OF CHARLES SCHAEFFER 5GJ 



In the absence of the author the following memoir was presented in 

 abstract by Professor A. P. Brown, University of Pennsylvania : 



MEMOIR OF CHARLES SCHAEFFER 

 BY ANGELO HEILPRIN 



In the death of Dr Charles Schaeffer, which took place on November 24, 

 1903, the friends of science have lost a genial and most lovable associate, 

 and one who, while not professionally nor professedly a naturalist, was 

 to that extent interested in the beauties and workings of nature as to 

 consider the field of inquiry of the naturalist as his own by association. 

 A love for flowers, a discriminating eye for minerals, and an unusually 

 skillful hand in the manipulation of the camera, brought to Doctor 

 Schaeffer a many-sided nature, which years of pleasurable travel, with 

 a loving wife for helpmate, broadened out into what are still to many 

 "pastures new." 



Most of Doctor Schaeffer's observations were given by word of mouth 

 to his associates, and only exceptionally were they published in paper 

 form. He was a member of numerous scientific societies: American 

 Philosophical Society, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 Geological Society of America, Franklin Institute, Geographical Society 

 of Philadelphia, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Pennsylvania State Medical Society, Philadelphia County Medical 

 Society, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania, Photographic Society of Philadelphia, Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Pennsylvania, etcetera. His closest association was with the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, to whose body of mem- 

 bers he was elected in 1861, and in which he served for long terms of 

 years on the Council and as Recorder to the Botanical, the Biological, and 

 the Mineralogical and Geological sections. For many of the later years 

 of his life Doctor Schaeffer made the Canadian Rocky mountains and the 

 Selkirks his summer abode, drawing from them a wealth of new infor- 

 mation and imparting to others through his collections charming les- 

 sons of the region which he could almost justly call his own. The little 

 colony of Philadelphians who year after year return to Glacier House or 

 thereabout to make observations on glacial phenomena or mountain 

 structures, and on the habits, colors, and distribution of the Canadian 

 sub- Alpine floras, have been pioneered to their camps by Doctor Schaeffer, 

 who sought in the mountain air the new vigor of life. 



Doctor Schaeffer's name will be fittingly perpetuated in a sumptuously 

 illustrated volume on the flowering plants of the Canadian Rocky moun- 

 tains—the work, artistically and otherwise, principally of Mrs Schaeffer — 

 now in course of preparation. 



