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OBITUARY NOTICES, 
CHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT. 
1826-1901. 
[Read before the Society, October 12, 1901.] 
We are called upon to mourn the death of one of the 
founders of the Philosophical Society, Charles Anthony 
Schott, who, after a lingering illness of four months, passed 
away at his home in Washington on July 31, 1901. 
He was horn at Manheim, Baden, Germany, on August 7, 
1826, and graduated from the Polytechnic School at Carls- 
rhue with the degree of Civil Engineer in 1847. He came 
to the United States soon after, and, through his acquaint¬ 
ance with one of the Hilgards, obtained employment on the 
Coast Survey in the winter of 1848. For a period of over 
fifty-two years he devoted all his ability to the service of the 
government of his adopted country, which he loved with 
the ardor common to those who have separated themselves 
from past traditions and have taken upon themselves the 
duties which new conditions and new surroundings impose. 
Whatever debts he owed to the country of his birth and 
to the past, he was folly able to repay, since the whole of his 
life was devoted to scientific pursuits, and the results of suc¬ 
cessful scientific work are a benefit to all humanity. 
In a letter extending the sympathy of the Prussian Geod¬ 
etic Institute to the Survey on the loss which the latter had 
sustained in the death of Schott, the eminent Director, Dr. 
Helmert, thus refers to Schott’s nativity: 
“ I am pleased to think that it was a German who devel¬ 
oped for so many years such a wonderful activity in the 
Survey, and thus Mr. Schott did not only render great serv¬ 
ices to science by his successful work, but contributed to the 
esteem which two great nations have for each other.” 
During the first two years of his connection with the Sur¬ 
vey an opportunity was afforded him to familiarize himself 
