THE DEATH of Roscoe R. Hill on October 26, 1960, at his home in Washington, D. C, ended a long and productive career, both in and out of the archival field, that covered almost half a century in academic and public service. For the Society of American Archivists Dr. Hill's passing is a special loss—the loss of one of our founding members (among the oldest of those surviving) and of one who was active in the Society up to within hours of his death, when he was working on the latest installment of his American Archivology series. Almost every year our quarterly had at least some word from him, usually a note of praise for a new Latin American archival guide or documentary historical publication or a gentle but persistent gibe at some of the frailties of our professional argot—a favorite pastime in his dialogs with fellow archivists. He also served on several of the Society's committees: Classification and Cataloging, International Relations, and Membership. In 1951 he was elected an honorary member in the Society, with lifetime tenure, and in 1958 he was enrolled in the Society's first selection of distinguished Fellows. Like most leading archivists in America and Europe in this century, Dr. Hill's academic training and intellectual interests were basically historical. He worked variously and tirelessly as a teacher, writer, administrator, and consultant, and he traveled extensively and had a wide acquaintance abroad, especially in Latin America. He had grown up in post-Civil War Illinois, had attended Eureka College (A.B., 1900) and the University of Chicago (1903-4, 1907), and had initially taught in midwest high schools and in a mission school in Cuba (1901-8 passim). His first major archival project, and the one that established his reputation, was in Seville, in 1911-13, for J. Franklin Jameson's Department of Historical Research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the compilation of the Descriptive Catalogue of documents relating to United States history in a major collection of Spain's colonial records, the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba. He then taught history at universities—Columbia, California, New York, and New Mexico—1913-20 passim; headed the Spanish-American Normal School at El Rito, N. Mex., 1917-19; and served in the U. S. State Department, 1920-28, first