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This is fully shown by the fact that he was sutficiently advanced to 

 enter Columbia College at the age of eleven years, and he was gradu- 

 ated, at the head of a class of twenty-two, at the age of fifteen years. 

 At the age of twenty-one, he was appointed provisionally to the chair 

 of Chemistry. Shortly after this he became a trustee, and in 1820, at 

 the age of twenty-eight, he was appointed to the Professorship of Nat- 

 ural and Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry, a chair which he 

 fiiUed for the long period of thirty-three years. During this time his 

 lectures embraced Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Chemistry, 

 Geology, Mineralogy, Practical Mechanics, and for a long period As- 

 tronomy ; and he was able, by his unfaltering industry and great 

 memory, to master and communicate to his classes a knowledge of the 

 most important discoveries made through these vast fields of science. 

 In the year 1838 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the 

 survey of the Northeastern Boundary, and his letters to a distinguished 

 friend in England are said to have had much influence in prepar- 

 ing for the subsequent diplomatic arrangement upon that subject. As 

 a writer. Professor Renwick is known by several treatises on Chem- 

 istry and Mechanics. He likewise wrote somewhat elaborate biogra- 

 phies of Fulton, Rittenhouse, and DeWitt Clinton, not to mention 

 large contributions to various reviews and scientific journals. To this 

 arx'ay of Professor Renwick's wide acquirements and labors we must 

 not omit to add, that his taste for the fine arts was highly cultivated, and 

 his critical knowledge, especially of painting, often refen-ed to as exact 

 and authoritative. 



Although Professor Renwick made no great discovery by which the 

 boundaries of science were enlarged or the mastery of man over nature 

 increased, yet the influence exercised by his full mind upon a veiy 

 large and active community was extensively felt, and tended greatly 

 to the advancement of knowledge and the arts. He died at his 

 residence in New York, after a short illness, on the 12th of January, 

 having nearly completed his seventy-first year. 



Charles TVilkixs Short, M. D., one of the pioneers of Botany 

 in the Western States, died at his residence near Louisville, Kentucky, 

 on the 7th of March last, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. He was 

 born in Woodford County of that State, in October, 1794, took his med- 

 ical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in the year 1815, was 

 called to the chair of Materia Medica and Botany in Transylvania 

 University in 1825, and to the same chair in the new University at 



