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ous to say that Sir William Hooker was one of the 

 most admirable of men, a model Christian gentle- 



man.' 



Dr. Gray was appointed by Mr. Peabody himself a 

 member of the " Board of Trustees of the Peabody 

 Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology in 

 connection with Harvard University ' when it was 

 founded in 1866. The Hon. Kobert C. Winthrop, 

 offering the resolutions in memory of Dr. Gray, at the 

 meeting in 1888, says, " From first to last, as I can 

 bear witness, he was a most faithful and valuable mem- 

 ber of our Board ; he was always at our meetings and 

 took an active interest in all our work. In 1874, on 

 the death of Jeffries Wyman, he voluntarily assumed 

 the curatorship of our Museum, and did excellent 

 service until the appointment of Professor Putnam." 



TO R. W. CHURCH. 



Sunday evening 1 , February 25, 1860. 



The number of the " Guardian ' followed closely 

 upon your note of the 9th instant, and I have just 

 risen from the reading of your review of " Ecce 

 Homo." I knew nothing of this remarkable book, 

 beyond having seen the title. The notice in the 

 " Spectator ' had escaped me, or rather, through a 

 change in the order of circulation in our book 

 club, that number of " Spectator " has not yet come 

 round to me. But I have to thank you heartily for 

 calling my attention to it, and especially for sending 

 me your own published and well-considered thoughts 

 of it. I greatly admire your analysis of the book, 

 and what I thus learn of it greatly impresses me. I 

 shall procure it without delay. I long, not only to 

 read it myself, but to put it into the hands of some 



