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Jonathan Patten Hall was born in Medford, Massachusetts, 

 July 22, 1799, and died in Boston on March 6, 1866. He was 

 fitted by Daniel Staniford for Harvard College, where he was gradu- 

 ated in 1816. His own inclination was for a student's life, particularly 

 for the profession of medicine ; but he yielded to the wishes of his 

 father, and was engaged with him in business as a druggist for twenty- 

 three years. Mr. Hall was interested in Chemistry and also in Bot- 

 any. In 1821 he began to keep a regular journal of the atmospheric 

 temperature, recording his observations three times a day. He contin- 

 ued this journal to within a few days of his death. The last observa- 

 tion recorded by himself was on November 13, 1865, but the work 

 was done under his direction until March 1, 1866. On May 28, 

 1850, Mr. Hall was elected a Fellow of the Academy, and on the 14th 

 of August of the same year he was appointed Meteorological Obsei'ver 

 of the Academy. In 1858 he published his meteorological observations 

 in the Memoirs of the Academy (Vol. VI. p. 229), under the following 

 title : " Register of the Thermometer for Thii-ty-six Years, from 1821 to 

 1856, to which is added the Quantity of Rain falling in Boston, Mass., 

 for Thirty-four Years, from 1823 to 1856." Mr. Hall was singularly shy 

 and retiring in his nature, but in his unassuming way he served faith- 

 fully the interests of science. Harvard College and the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences were equally remembered by him in 

 his modest bequests ; the former receiving one hundred dollars for its 

 Library, and the latter an equal sum for its Publication Fund. 



From our list of Associate Fellows we have to lament the loss of the 

 Rev. Dr. Wayland, Bishop Alonzo Potter, and Colonel James D. Gra- 

 ham, — the two former distinguished for their learning and eloquence 

 as divines, and for their zealous and fruitful labors in behalf of educa- 

 tion, — the latter well known for his various services as an officer of 

 the Corps of our National Engineers. 



Francis Wayland, the son of Rev. Francis and Mary "Wayland 

 (the father a Baptist clergyman of worth and reputation), was born in the 

 city of New York on the 11th of March, 1796. He was graduated at 

 Union College in 1813. He then made choice of the medical profession, 

 in which he had completed a three years' course of study, when, deem- 

 ing himself called to a more sacred field of service, he, in 1816, became a 

 member of the Andover Theological Seminary. Here he remained 

 but a year, and then accepted a tutorship in Union College, which he 

 held for four years. In 1821 he became pastor of the First Baptist 



