WILLIAM HENRI ADAMS, F. A. I. A.

Of Chicago, born in Chicago August 25, 1840, was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects October 13, 1892, and died at Chicago, May 3, 1894.

ARTHUR ROTCH, F. A. I. A.

Of Boston, born in Boston, May 13, 1850, a graduate of Harvard in the Class of '71; a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris; a resident in Europe from 1874 to 1880, he was chosen to make designs for the restoration of the Chateau Chenonseaux, and personally supervised the work. On his return he associated himself with George T. Tilden, a Fellow of the Institute, Mr. Rotch becoming a Fellow December 12, 1893, and remained in partnership with him until his death, at Beverly, August 15, 1894.

Possessed of a large fortune, he used it with a lavish generosity to promote the profession which he loved and practiced with distinguished success, leaving behind monuments of his skill in all parts of the country from Maine to Washington. He was also an artist of no mean ability and his paintings are hung in prominent art galleries. He founded in 1882 the Rotch Travelling Scholarship in coöperation with his two sisters as a memorial of their father and has thus done more for art and to perpetuate his memory than often falls to the lot of man.

It is to be hoped that his memory will be perpetuated in the City of Boston by carrying out the design which he made in a voluntary public competition instituted by the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the treatment of that open space known as Copley Square and upon which are located Trinity Church by Richardson, the new Old South by Cummings, the Art Museum by Sturges & Brigham and the Boston Public Library by McKim, Mead & White. His design received the first award, and Boston would do honor to itself and to one of its noblest citizens by this gracious act. He left a widow, but no children.

JAMES DOUGLASS, F. A. I. A.

Of Milwaukee, became a member of the Western Association of Architects in 1884. He was for a number of years president of the Wisconsin Association of Architects. He died in October, 1894.