Director, New York Aquarium
Centurion, 1903–1944
Born 29 September 1859 in Parnassus, Pennsylvania
Died 28 January 1944 in Miami, Florida
Buried Unity Cemetery
, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Proposed by Henry Fairfield Osborn and John L. Cadwalader
Elected 5 December 1903 at age forty-four
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
Charles Haskins Townsend. [Born] 1859. Naturalist. For 35 years director of the New York Aquarium, which he developed from small beginnings to a world institution; beginning with the United States Fish Commission in charge of salmon propagation, he undertook the conservation of reindeer in Alaska; for ten years cruised as a naturalist on board the U.S.S. Albatross observing widely and deeply studying constantly; served on Bering Sea Fur Seal Commission in aid of conservation; preserver of the Galapagos turtle, colonies of which he, established in Hawaii, California, and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the last of the self-taught naturalists of a former generation; a strong and salty personality, his face never lost the weathering of his long years at sea; his good fellowship will be grievously missed; the oldest Centurion on this roll [of 1944 decedents].
Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945
