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Bond as an astronomer, said that he saw around him so many of his 

 friends and neighbors, that it was hardly necessary to speak of his per- 

 sonal qualities as witnessed by them in private intercourse. To them, 

 indeed, it is not necessary. They anticipate at once all that can be 

 said on this point. But, Sir, Mr. Bond was for so long a time obliged 

 to consecrate whatever of time and health his physical infirmity left at 

 his disposal to the study of the heavens, that his earthly relations were 

 comparatively contracted ; and many who have been nigh dwellers have 

 had to regret that they could not, with a true regard for him, seek to 

 be neighbors. I happen to be one of the few persons present who 

 began to know him, in social and domestic life, long before he came to 

 the University ; and we know, that, to the last, in his domestic and 

 social relations he manifested the spirit of the heaven of heavens, — 

 there is but one word for it, — love. It was his very nature. 



" President Quincy has informed us how the professional astronomer 

 was superinduced on the devoted father of a family. Mr. Bond was 

 also the staff of his own venerable father, to be again, in his turn, 

 blessed during his public scientific career with the support — the co- 

 operation of mind, heart, and hand — of one who has been to him at 

 the same time a son and as a brother. Allusion has been made. Sir, to 

 the beautiful blending of these relations in the case of the deceased 

 friend whom the Academy has just commemorated. The parallel 

 occurred to me when the parties were all living ; and I trust that the 

 mention of it now is not out of keeping in a meeting like this. I 

 heartily second the resolutions." 



The resolutions were then unanimously adopted. 



Four buudred and sixty-first meeting. 



February 22, 1859. — Supplementary Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Gray resumed the subject of his communication 

 to the meeting on January 11, upon the distribution of plants 

 in the northern temperate zone, and especially in North Amer- 

 ica and Eastern Asia, and undertook to indicate some of the 

 vicissitudes to which our extant vegetation must have been 

 exposed in earlier times, and which must have influenced the 

 geographical distribution of the species. 



