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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



able matter to permit them to adjust themselves to a certain de- 

 gree of domesticity or to sociability ; and it is the social state 

 which, other things being equal, is the highest product of animal 

 as well as of human intelligence. — Translated for The Popular Sci- 

 ence Monthly from the Revue Scientifique. 



SKETCH OF HENRY CAKRINGTON BOLTON. 



THE New York Academy of Sciences, founded in 1817 as the 

 Lyceum of Natural History, is the oldest and most influen- 

 tial scientific society in the city. During a period of seventy-six 

 years it has had but six presidents, viz. : Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill, 

 who served seven years ; Prof. John Torrey, four years ; Major 

 Joseph Delafield, thirty-eight years; Prof. Charles A. Joy, two 

 years ; Prof. John S. Newberry, twenty-four years ; Prof. Oliver 

 P. Hubbard, one year. At the annual election held February, 

 1893, Prof. Henry Carrington Bolton, Ph. D., was elected the 

 seventh president. 



Henry Carrington Bolton was born in New York city, 

 January 28, 1843, being the son of Jackson Bolton, M. D., and 

 Anna Hinman, daughter of Elisha North, M. D., of New London, 

 Conn. From both his paternal and maternal ancestors Dr. Bolton 

 inherits traits that co-operate to give him scholarly tastes and 

 stability of character. 



The family of Bolton is among the few English ones able to 

 show their descent from a period not far removed from the Con- 

 quest (1066). The extensive Yorkshire domain, from which the 

 family derived its name, is mentioned in Domesday, and in 1135 

 Oughtrede de Bolton appears as Lord of Bolton and Bowbearer of 

 Bowland Forest. From their estates in the charming Bibble Val- 

 ley, near the southern border of Lancashire, the family spread 

 through Yorkshire and adjoining counties, bestowing their name 

 on many a dale and infant vill, so that to-day there are seventeen 

 places in England known as Bolton, with or without distinguish- 

 ing suffixes. From earliest times the Boltons were yeomen and 

 tradesmen, but many of their sons entered the service of the 

 Church, and not a few of them became eminent for scholarship. 



In 1530 the direct ancestors of Dr. Bolton were living on an 

 estate called Brookhouse, near the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, 

 and from them he traces his descent without a missing link in the 

 chain. In 1718 one of the family left England and settled in 

 Philadelphia ; his son and his grandson became prominent ship- 

 ping merchants in Savannah, Ga., the latter taking into partner- 

 ship his nephew Curtis, grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 



