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In addition to those recorded on the foregoing pages, we regret also to report the deaths of the following persons whose obituaries were not received in time to be included in this issue: Mr. John D. Galloway, on March lo, 1943; Mrs. Lee A. Phillips, on Decem- ber 9, 1942; and Miss Frances Taylor, on February 15, 1943. It is hoped to include them in the June number.

Lack of space has forced us to hold over the "Check List" until the June issue, and only brief mention can be made here of some of our new members.

Alexander Richards Baldwin* was born in San Francisco, received the degree of Ph.B. from University of California in 1896 and LL.B. from Hastings College of the Law in 1899, and has practiced law in California ever since. He has been president of Western Pacific Railroad Corporation and vice-president of The Western Pacific Railroad Company.

Eva Benson Buck is the widow of our late Member, Congressman Frank H. Buck,* whose obituary was printed in the December Quarterly.

Robert Grannis Cowan is the son of Robert Ernest Cowan,* noted California bibli- ographer and long-time member of our Board of Directors, who died last May.

Mrs. Craig Carrier, librarian of the California State Society of the D. A. R., is the granddaughter of Noah Sanford Arnold who came to California in 1848, engaged in business in Shasta County, and became a merchant in San Francisco in the early sixties.

The Right Rev. Thomas A. Connolly, Pastor of Mission Dolores, is the first native- born San Franciscan to become auxiliary bishop of San Francisco in that archdiocese.

William P. Dwyer is the son of Captain Thomas Dwyer who came to California in i860 and in 1862 organized the Sacramento Wood Company which later developed into the Sacramento Transportation Company. William P. Dwyer was born in Sacramento, graduated from Saint Mary's College in 1892, and adopted river transportation as a career. He was elected president of Sacramento Transportation Company in 19 18 and since 1932 has been president of The River Lines, a merger of the California, Fay, and Sacramento transportation companies.

Leo Eloesser* was born in San Francisco, the son of Arthur and Molly (Heyneman) Eloesser. Holding a B.S. degree from the University of California and an M.D. from Heidelberg, he has served as assistant in surgery. University of California; clinical pro- fessor of surgery, Stanford University; consulting surgeon U. S. Veterans Bureau, U. S. Marine Hospital; and is chief of Stanford surgical service, San Francisco Hospital.

Sandford Fleming,* born in Adelaide, Australia, has been professor of Church His- tory in the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School since 1926 and its president since 1937. He is an authority on early Baptist history on the Pacific Coast.

Raymond LeRoy Haight,* bom in San Jose, California, holds degrees of A.B. and J.D. from the University of Southern California and since 192 1 has practiced law in Los Angeles, where he has been senior partner of Haight, Trippet & Syvertson since 1927.

Mr. Charles Hoehn, president of the Enterprise Engine and Foundry Co., has lived in San Francisco all his life. His parents came to California from Europe in 1875.

Edward Hohfeld,* the son of Edward and Rosa (Hillebrand) Hohfeld, was born in Oakland. He holds the degree of A.B. from the University of California, and an LL.B. from Harvard. Since 1907 he has practiced law in San Francisco and is now senior partner of Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster, Shuman & Clark.

Theodore Jesse Hoover,* born in West Branch, Iowa, received the degree of A.B. from Stanford in 1901, has been professor of mining and metallurgy at Stanford Uni-