534 CHARLES CALLAHAN PERKINS. 



1885. Study of the Relative Poisonous Effects of Coal and Water Gas. With 

 Prof. Sedgwick. Proc. Soc. of Arts, M. I. T., 1885-86. 



1885. Eeport on Illuminating Gas. With Prof. Sedgwick. Mass. Pub. Doc. 



1885. Senate, No. 00. 



1886. Eeport on Manufacturing Refuse. Rep. Mass. Drainage Commission. 



1886, p. 231. 



*\Vitli L. K. Russell. On the Reaction of Boston Water on certain sorts 

 of Service Pipe. To be read at next meeting of the Civil Engineers. 



*An Index to the Literature of Carbon Monoxide. To be completed by 

 Mr. Gill. 



CHARLES CALLAHAN PERKINS. 



Charles Callahan Perkins, son of James and Eliza Greene 

 (Callahan) Perkins was born in Boston on the 1st of March, 1823. 

 His grandfather was James Perkins, an eminent merchant, whose 

 name will be long remembered in Boston for his munificent gifts to 

 the Institution for the Blind and to the Boston Athenaeum. 



Charles Perkins's early years were spent in Boston and at boarding 

 schools in Cambridge. He was afterwards, with his brother Edward, 

 under the care and admirable influence of Dr. and Mrs, Charles 

 Follen. He was finally fitted for college at Burlington, New Jersey, 

 and entered Harvard in the autumn of 1839. 



Although he had early formed a habit of reading, he was distin- 

 guished in college not so much for proficiency in his studies as for his 

 love of drawing and music. These tastes, which were to color all his 

 later life, had begun to manifest themselves at a very early age; and, 

 freed by the inheritance of an easy fortune from the need of preparing 

 himself for a professional life, he gave full play to his natural bent 

 while at Harvard. He graduated with his class in 1843. 



The opportunities for the study of any of the fine arts in America 

 were scanty indeed in those days, and young Perkins soon after 

 taking his degree naturally sought in Europe the examj^les and the 

 instruction he longed for. He first resided in Rome, giving himself 

 mainly to drawing and painting. Later, and after a brief visit to 

 America, he lived in Paris, stud^-ing painting in the studio of Ary 

 SchefFer, but at the same time giving increased attention to the study 

 of music, which soon absorbed the greater part of his time. He had 

 at this period already begun to form plans for the advancement of his 

 favorite arts in America. In a letter to his sister, dated early in 

 1847, he wrote that he looked forward to the time when, trained and 

 with ripened powers, he might be instrumental, with the aid of others, 



♦ Posthumous. 



