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combined with perfect self-possession, purity, and kindness of heart, 

 were recognized in him at sight. A closer acquaintance showed that 

 culture had given him also a command of at least all the ordinary 

 resources of the calculus, and that in the investigation of physical and 

 other problems he displayed not only a sound common-sense, but a 

 close metaphysical acumen, which rendered liis papers as interesting to 

 the philosophical reader as they were valuable to the man of science. 

 His last publication was an ingenious induction, on scientific grounds, 

 of the perpetuity and perpetual unity of that nation to whose service he 

 had given his powers, and in whose service he finally sacrificed an 

 unexhausted life. A partial list of the papers published by Major Hunt, 

 hereto appended, will show how earnestly, amid the constant duties of 

 his profession, his mind turned toward scientific problems.* 



* On the Dispersion of Light. — Am. Journ. Sci., N. Ser., Vol. VII., May, 1849. 



On the Interpretation of Mariotti's Law. — Am. Journ. Sci., Vol. IX., May, 1 8.50. 



Bemarks on Terrestrial Thermotics. — Am. Association for Advancement of 

 Science, Aug., 1849. 



Proposed Experiments on the Cohesion of Liquids. — Am. Ass., Aug., 1850. 



On the Use of Air as a Medium for Conveying Mechanical Povsrer. — Am. Ass., 

 Aug., 1851. 



Proposal for a Trigonometrical Survey of New York. — Am. Ass., Aug., 1851. 



Views on the Nature of Organic Structure. — Am. Journ. Sci., Vol. XIII., Jan., 

 1852. 



Eemarks on the Proposed Geographical Survey of New York. — Am. Journ. 

 Sci., Vol. XIV., July, 1852. 



On Cohesion of Fluids, Evaporation, and Steam-Boiler Explosions. — Am. Ass., 

 July, 1853. 



Remarks on Lithography and Lithographic Transfer. — Am. Ass., July, 1843. 



The Conical Condenser; a Telescopic Appendage. — Am. Journ. Sci., Nov., 

 1853. 



Project of a Geographical Department of the Library of Congress. — Am. Journ. 

 S^i., Vol. XVI., Nov., 1853. 



Report of Engraving Operations for 1853. — Coast Survey Report for 1853. 



Letters describing an Instrument, invented by himself, and called the Inter- 

 ranger. — Coast Survey Report for 1 853. 



Description of the Self-registering Tide-Gauge. — Coast Survey Report for 1853. 



Notes on Map-Projections. — Coast Survey Report for 1853. 



Description of the United States Coast Survey Apparatus for Measuring Base 

 Lines. — Am. Ass., May, 1854. 



On the Nature of Forces. — Am. Journ. Sci., Vol. XVIII., Sept., 1854. 



Notes on Map-Projections. — Am. Journ. Sci., Vol. XVIII., Nov., 1854. 



Report on Engraving in Relation to the Coast Survey, — Coast Survey Report 

 for 1854. 



