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late Professor Nichols, has been a most valued aid to instruction at 

 the Institute, and has been largely used at other schools. In organic 

 chemistry his instruction was on a high plane, yet he never lost sight 

 of the importance, in a school of this character, of insisting on the 

 industrial application of scientific research. 



But it was in the teaching of industrial processes where he espe- 

 cially excelled. His lectures were listened to with eagerness by his 

 pupils, who recognized the master who could deal with equal facility 

 with the scientific basis of a process and with its economic merits. 

 His range of subjects in industrial chemistry was very wide. Not 

 only were the textile industries — bleaching, dyeing, printing, pig- 

 ments, etc. — thoroughly taught, but the great industries of the world 

 in their manifold variety received from him exhaustive treatment. 

 His intimate acquaintance with the manufactures and manufacturers 

 in New England kept him in close touch with the progress of all its 

 industries. 



Dr. Norton's career as a chemist and teacher is remarkable for the 

 amount and variety of good work which he accomplished in his short 

 span of life, which had not reached twoscore years at his death. The 

 Institute of Technology, with which his life was so largely identified, 

 lost in his death not only one of its most valued teachers, but one of 

 the most useful members of its Faculty. His judgment, both in mat- 

 ters of the general policy of the Institute and of the minute details of 

 organization, was always highly prized by his associates. 



His personal character was singularly simple, direct, and truthful, 

 and he was unselfishly devoted to his family, his friends, and his 

 students. 



In 1883 Dr. Norton married Alice Peloubet, who survives him, 

 with five children. 



1893. T. M. Drown. 



ANDREW PRESTON PEABODY. 



Dr. Peabodt was chosen into the Academy* at the close of a 

 period when there had been quite a keen discussion as to the defini 

 tion of the word "Sciences" in its title. The word Science and 

 kindred words have certainly varied in their meaning more than once 

 in the last two or three centuries. Forty or fifty years ago their wa« 

 a division in the Academy as to whether it could be properly 



* He was elected a Resident Fellow in 1861, and was Vice-President from 

 1888 to 1892. 



