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written on March 18, but a short time before his own death, 

 remarked on the peculiar modesty of Mr. Redfield: "He never, 

 within my hearing, made his own acts a subject of conversation or 

 reference." Mr. E. L. Rand, his colleague in the preparation of 

 the "Preliminary Catalogue," sums up briefly what so many 

 have expressed more in detail: "Circumstances threw us into 

 the most intimate correspondence and association during the last 

 seven or eight years and made me familiar with his beautiful 

 character. He was always high-principled, simple-hearted, 

 charitable, kind and helpful, an affectionate friend, a wise counsel- 

 lor, an upright judge. I can hardly realize that he is really gone 

 from this earth, and that I am left alone in the work that we pur- 

 sued so long together." 



February the 27ch, 1895, the day on which he passed away, will 

 long be remembered in the annals of the Academy as the 

 anniversary of the loss of one of its most valuable and devoted 

 associates. 



