PSYCHE 
VOL. XLVII JUNE-SEPTEMBER, 1940 Nos. 2-3 
HENRY CLINTON FALL (1862-1939) 
Henry Clinton Fall was born December 25, 1862, at Farm- 
ington, New Hampshire. His father was Orin Tenney Fall, 
manufacturer, veteran of the Civil War, and member of the 
New Hampshire legislature. His mother was Mary Ann 
Hayes. Both were of good, old American stock. 
Mr. Fall was educated in the public schools of Dover, 
New Hampshire, and at Dartmouth College, where he re- 
ceived the degree of B.S., at the head of his class, in 1884. 
Thereafter he taught physics and mathematics in Chicago, 
until, in 1889, his health became impaired. He went to 
California to recover and eventually resumed teaching there, 
first at Pomona and then at the Pasadena High school, 
where he taught physics and chemistry and was head of 
the science department for more than twenty years. He re- 
tired in 1917. After more than thirty years of notable work 
as a teacher, he returned to the East with his mother and 
made his home at Tyngsboro, Massachusetts with his sister, 
who had lately purchased the house in which his old friend 
and mentor, the coleopterist Frederick Blanchard, had lived. 
Mr. Fall continued his entomological work at Tyngsboro for 
more than twenty years. He died at home in the evening of 
November 14, 1939. 
Mr. Fall had many interests. As a young man in college 
he excelled in baseball, and all his life he was keenly in- 
terested in baseball, tennis, and other athletic sports. He 
collected not only Coleoptera but Lepidoptera, stamps, post- 
marks, and old New England railway locomotive pictures. 
His valuable collection of these pictures is to be placed in 
the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society rooms in 
the Baker Library of the Harvard School of Business. But 
