He moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1881 where he worked at Santa Barbara Society of Natural History till his death in January 1909. During his life he worked in many organizations such as Anthropological Society of Washington, California Academy of Sciences, California Dental Association, the New Zealand Institute, the Historical Society of Southern California and various Victorian Institutes and even was a fellow at the Geological Society of America. Later on, some of his fossils were moved from those places to the Golden Gate Park Museum and many of them were donated to the Lincoln School District.[1]