SKETCH OF CHARLES UP HAM SHEPARD. 553 



In its obituary the Charleston News said of him : " He chose 

 his profession well. A mind so analytic as his and so keen in the 

 perception of relations could not have failed to see that the field 

 in which he cast his literary fortunes was one which offered an 

 undying reward for those who made it a successful arena of 

 untiring and indomitable labor and energy. . . . Prof. Shepard 

 discovered more new species of minerals which have attained 

 permanent recognition than perhaps any other scientist of the 

 present day. He was a member of many American and foreign 

 societies, among which are the Imperial Society of Natural Sci- 

 ence of St. Petersburg, the Royal Society of Gottingen, and the 

 Society of Natural Sciences of Vienna. He published a Treatise 

 on Mineralogy (1832 and 1835), a report on the Mineralogy of 

 Connecticut, and numerous scientific papers." Many reports on 

 mines made by him have been printed. 



He announced in 1835 his discovery of his first new species of 

 microlite, that of warwickite in 1838, that of danburite in 1839, and 

 he afterward described many other new minerals until shortly 

 before his death. His knowledge of minerals was wonderfully 

 extensive, " and he was hence ready," it has been said, " with 

 quick judgments as to new and old ; sometimes too quick but in 

 any case imparting progress to American mineralogy." 



The honorary degree of M. D. was conferred upon him by 

 Dartmouth in 1836, and that of LL. D. by Amherst in 1857. 



He was a man of refinement and great courtesy, and was held 

 in high esteem wherever he resided. 



He left two children, a son and a daughter. 



Prof. Shepard's son, Charles Upham, was born at New Haven, 

 October 4,1842. He was graduated from Yale College in 1863, 

 and took the degree of M. D. at Gottingen in 1867. He suc- 

 ceeded to his father's professorship at Charleston, and has been 

 active in developing the phosphate and other chemical indus- 

 tries of South Carolina. In 1887 he presented the second cabinet 

 of minerals that was formed by his father, numbering more than 

 ten thousand specimens, to Amherst College, and his cabinet of 

 representatives of more than two hundred different meteorites 

 has been deposited in the United States National Museum. 



Spectrophotographic investigation by Prof. Keeler makes it certain 

 that the rings of Saturn are not solid, but are composed of innumerable 

 small bodies or meteorites. The observations show that the motion of the 

 interior parts of the rings is more rapid than that of those of the outer part, 

 which might be the case if the rings were composed of free moving bodies 

 independent of one another ; while if the rings were solid the outer parts 

 would necessarily move the fastest. 



