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gentleness of manner, and sympathy with them in their ministerial 

 trials. 



Archdeacon Eaymond became a Fellow of this Society in 1852, 

 and was a frequent attendant at our evening meetings. 



Professor Karl Eitter was bom at Quedlinburg in 1779, and at 

 the age of five years was received gratuitously into Salzmann's 

 educational establishment at Schnepfenthal, where he remained 

 eleven years ; whence he was removed to the University of Halle, 

 and, remaining there for two years, then went to Frankfort. Here 

 he met with men eminent in science, among whom were Humboldt, 

 Buch, and Sommering the physician. Eitter's first literary essays 

 were published in the ' Kinderfreund,' from 1803 to 1806. In the 

 latter year he published six maps of Europe, and in 1811 a ' Geo- 

 graphy of Europe,' in 2 volumes. 



In 1814 Eitter proceeded to the University of Gottingen, where 

 he prepared the plan for his great work on Comparative Geography, 

 a work which will long remain a record of the perseverance of the 

 author. The first volume of this work was brought out in 1817, 

 and the second volume, concluding Asia, in 1820. The year pre- 

 viously Eitter had been appointed Professor of History at the 

 Frankfort Gymnasium, but soon after proceeded to Berlin, where 

 he was made Professor of Geography at the Military Academy and 

 the University. At first his lectures were sparingly attended. 

 The Professor's fame, however, soon spread, and the largest lecture- 

 hall could barely accommodate the numbers desirous of hearing 

 them. The lectures most crowded were those on General Geo- 

 graphy, on Palestine, on Greece, and on Italy. His professional 

 duties left Eitter but little leisure to bestow upon the second 

 edition of his 'Geography;' nevertheless, from 1822, the date of 

 the appearance of the first volume, to within a short time of his 

 death, he carried the work to the 19th volume of Asia. I per- 

 fectly agree with the learned Mr. Norris, that "the labours of 

 Karl Eitter are characterized by great industr}^ and an anxious 

 desire to gather up, and sj^^stematically to arrange, every fact re- 

 lating to the regions treated of in his work, and to leave no source 

 unexplored from which any information was to be derived. His 

 great work comprises not only the geography of each country 

 strictly considered, but also the history, antiquities, politics, ethno- 

 logy, natural history, and an account of any travels through them 

 which may tend to throw light upon their condition." During his 



