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discipline of science and the experience of life. All appropriate hon- 

 ors and distinctions testified to his worth and the value of his scientific 

 services. These culminated upon the fiftieth and jubilee anniversary 

 of his doctorate, on the 30th of March, 1864, when his numerous 

 friends and admirers of all parts of the world united to do him honor. 

 Among the many offerings of that day was a large gold medal which 

 his friends had caused to be struck, with the inscription, " Palmarum 

 pafri dant lustra decern tibi pahnam. In pahnis resurgcs." But 

 the infirmities of age were coming on. Yet another lustrum was al- 

 most filled with not unequal scientific labors, when, after shoi't suffer- 

 ing, came the final rest; and, as the year 1868 drew near its close, 

 the bier of Martius was decked with palms, — souvenirs of his greatest 

 scientific achievement, and with which his name is imperishably asso- 

 ciated. 



Henry Hart Milman * Dean of St. Paul's, was born in 1791, and 

 died in October, 1868, at the age of 77. It would be difficult to name 

 among Englishmen of the present century a more pleasing instance of 

 devotion to letters than that of this eminent man. His early life was 

 marked by academic distinctions. He gained an honorable reputation 

 as a poet; and through his long career his scholarship revealed itself 

 in various occasional contributions to the literature of the time. But 

 he is best known by a series of historical writings, which covered from 

 first to last some thirty years of his life. 



His " History of the Jews," published in 1830 in the Family 

 Library, seemed too bold to the public of that day, and it brought 

 some censure upon his head. This he bore with silent patience, and 

 outlived it. When after the lapse of a generation he reissued the 

 book, with additions but without compromise, it was received in a dif- 

 ferent spirit. Next he appeared as the author of a " History of Chris- 

 tianity to the Extinction of Paganism in the Roman Empire." His 

 third and most extensive work, the " History of Latin Christianity," 

 was a continuation of this. It comes down to the point at which Gib- 

 bon's "Decline and Fall" terminates, but is written with a different 

 purpose and in another vein. Dean Milman's previous diligent editor- 

 ship of Gibbon had doubtless helped to train him to his undertaking. 

 Gibbon had not professed to write a history of the middle ages ; and 

 Hallam had not exhausted the subject. Indeed, a modern layman 



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