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leave the next day for London, where he intended to remain a few 

 days, and then go on to Liverpool, where his passage for the home- 

 ward voyage had already been engaged. 



Soon after an early breakfast taken in his room, he was heard to 

 fall, and was found with his overcoat on prepared to go out. By his 

 side lay a letter addressed to his son-in-law, evidently just written, 

 and stamped but not sealed, which he was on the point of mailing. 

 It was written in excellent spirits, detailing his preparations for the 

 homeward voyage, and the pleasure he should experience in again 

 seeing his daughter and her family. Such a termination of his life 

 had been anticipated for some years by Dr. Kneeland. He knew and 

 had informed some intimate friends of a chronic trouble of the heart, 

 which would in all probability suddenly end his days. 



His remains were tenderly cared for by his friends, and laid by 

 loving hands in the cemetery at Ohlsdorf, near Hamburg. They have 

 also placed over his grave, for themselves and for his family and 

 friends on this side of the Atlantic, a monumental stone in affectionate 

 remembrance. 



ASSOCIATE FELLOWS. 



FREDERICK AUGUSTUS PORTER BARNARD. 



Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was born in Sheffield, 

 Massachusetts, on May 5, 1809. He died in New York on April 27, 

 1889. He was descended on his father's side from Francis Barnard 

 of Coventry, Warwickshire, England ; and on his mother's side from 

 John Porter of Warwickshire, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 

 1628. In 1886 he furnished to a magazine an interesting article on 

 " How I was educated." After receiving some elementary instruction 

 from his mother, he was sent, with a sister two years older, to the 

 village school in Sheffield. At six years of age, he had read from 

 Shakespeare, Cowper, Burns, Addison, etc., and began the study of 

 Latin. When nine years old, he lived for a time at Saratoga Springs 

 with his grandfather, General B. P. Porter, afterwards Secretary of 

 War under John Quincy Adams. At his leisure, he learned the art 

 of printing so effectually that he might have supported himself by it 

 had circumstances compelled him. From Saratoga Springs he went 

 to Stockbridge, Mass., and became interested in scientific studies. 

 He entered Yale College in 1824, and graduated honorably in 1828. 



