Professor Oliver was born in Salem, Massachusetts, of Quaker parentage, in 1829. He was the poet of the class of 1849 at Harvard, and the favourite pupil of Professor Benjamin Peirce, who always declared that "Jimmy Oliver was the best mathematician who had ever come under his notice." As a teacher, Professor Oliver was thorough, painstaking, considerate, and, above all, inspiring by his wealth of suggestiveness and depth of intellectual insight. His methods in the classroom were very informal, and he seldom lost an opportunity of making a good joke, even when the joke was on himself. As he was happiest when the textbook could be laid aside and he could follow his own bent, it is possible that he did not always attain the best results with a miscellaneous class of undergraduates; but with an "audience fit though few," he was wont to open up new vistas, sometimes forgetting the lapse of time in his enthusiasm. His publications are not numerous, for the drudgery of working up an article for permanent form was peculiarly irksome to him, especially after the freshness of discovery had passed away; and, during his best years, he had small leisure for writing, as he had then comparatively few assistants, and his recitation hours sometimes amounted to more than twenty in the week. His high original power was of the kind that shows itself not so much in published writings as in familiar classroom talks, and in the inspiration which they impart to others; and it is thus he would wish his name to live. As regards the silent influence of his life, there must be many hundreds of students and others who still derive inspiration from the memory of his high standards, and the rare beauty of his life and character with its unusual freedom from self-consciousness.

Dissertation presented to the Faculty of Cornell University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

He devoted his life to teaching young men Greek at provincial Hamilton College in northern New York State. A graduate of the college, he always lived near it and is buried on its grounds. He had two great students, Benjamin D Meritt and the poet Ezra Pound. He published little, for he had no library and little time; but nothing that he published was foolish. He was a loyal man, loyal to Hamilton and loyal to his teacher Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

In the late 1920s, she reported to the American Association of University Women that "after [her] marriage [she] continued upon mathematical investigations started some years before."

The tables referred to in Part I, Chapter III, will be given in a future number of the 'Annals'.

This paper is supplementary to that which appeared in Nos. 4 and 5 of Vol. IX, and contains the Tables to which reference was made.

Tables of the irreducible Covariants and Invariants of the lower quantics including the Sextic, and of pairs of the first four quantics (including the linear quantic).

Fitch resisted the anti-German hysteria of World War I, typified by Paul Shorey and J A Scott. Rather, with men like B L Gildersleeve and W A Oldfather he defended German philology in reviews and in refutations of the excesses of the chauvinists. This earned him the gratitude of his teacher. Wilamowitz cited his dissertation with approval in the most influential book ever written on Hellenistic poetry: "The American, E Fitch, earned his doctorate with a valuable dissertation and today is still a good friend of mine, perhaps the only one over there who really knows the Hellenistic poets."

She devoted much time and energy to encouraging women to take a public spirited interest in their local, state and national communities.

Annie Fitch was a member of the League of Women Voters and was on the book committee of a nearby town library.

She was a charter member of the Mathematical Association of America and maintained that membership until her death at age seventy-two. She died at her home in Clinton, New York, after a long illness, having written to Helen Owens in May 1940, a few months before her death: "It seems to me worthwhile that some women are intelligent about things mathematical even if their own accomplishments are not great."

CLINTON, N.Y., April 15 - Dr Edward Fitch, Edward North Professor Emeritus of Greek at Hamilton College and dean from 1926 to 1932, died this morning in Walton, N.Y., where he had made his home in recent years. He had been ill for many months. His age was 81.