Timeline: 1887-1895

	Charles Palache. Circa 1895. Courtesy of Judith Palache Gregory.

1887. Entered College.

1888. Vacation to Summit Soda Springs with Joe Garber

1889. Horseback trip to the Sierra with Professor LeConte.

1890. Good part of summer in Mother Lode country studying mines with Charlie Merrill. Began my thorough hatred of mines and mining life then.

1891. Graduated at top of the scientific group in the class. The hardest thing I ever had to do was getting up on the Commencement stage in Harmon Gym. and reading my essay on the "Migrations of the California Sequoias".

A.C. Lawson's arrival at the college that year gave me my first real start towards my career. Appointed thro him teaching Fellow in Mineralogy.

1892. Teaching elements of blowpipe analysis—helping Lawson move and rearrange the collections of minerals and rocks. Began work on my thesis on the Berkeley Hills. That summer worked at mapping the San Francisco Peninsula. Was undoubtedly the first to find—although I did not recognize—the field evidence of the “Rift,” later to become famous as the locus of the San Francisco earthquake. Lawson, as soon as I showed Mm the "dew ponds" back of Colma, recognized their importance as evidence of recent faulting.

1893. Teaching and field work on my thesis. That winter did much of my work on horseback, riding my horse “Capitan” over the hills.

1894. Completed my thesis and was granted the degree of Ph.D. This was the first such degree granted by U.C., at least in a science subject. They had no form for the diploma and I did not receive my sheepskin for nearly a year after the examination. It must have been in April that I started with Mother to go to Dresden where Lizzie was very ill. I went to Leipzig, leaving Mother in Dresden. Made excursions to Erzgebirge and Clausthal. In July went to Zurich for the Swiss International Congress, with excursions into the Jura and the Alps. Went to Munich in the Fall. There met T. A. Jaggar.

1895. In January took Mother and Lizzie to Hamburg to return home. Visited Berlin on way back to Munich. Spring excursion to Italy, going no further south than Rome. To Heidelberg in Spring semester, with Jaggar. Here first became really interested in Mineralogy, especially crystallography with Viktor Goldschmidt, then at the height of his powers. Returned home in the summer by way of France and England There I visited our relatives. On landing in New York went at once to the Berkshires for a meeting of the Geol. Soc. Amer. Visited Boston and the New York relatives. Soon after returning home went on a coast trip with Mr. Fairbanks from San Simeon to Monterey. In December was offered a job as assistant at Harvard and left before Christmas.

[HY: above list dated : ‘Jaffrey, N.H., 1933’]