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founded that Mr. Clark lived to witness. He died after a short illness, 

 at the age of eighty-three. Few men can have such good reason to 

 enjoy either the active or the retrospective portions of their lives as had 

 Alvan Clark, and few have seemed really to enjoy their opportunities 

 of promoting science more than he did. His genial and kindly tem- 

 perament will long preserve his memory among those who saw him in 

 his later years, surrounded by the implements of the work which he 

 loved to the last. 



CHARLES SMITH BRADLEY. 



Charles Smith Bradley, formerly Chief Justice of Rhode Island, 

 became a Fellow of the Academy on October 10, 1877. He was the 

 son of Charles and Sarah (Smith) Bradley, and was born at Newbury- 

 port, Mass., July 19, 1819. His father was a merchant of Boston, 

 and afterwards a manufacturer, residing at Portland, Maine ; on his 

 mother's side he was descended from the Rev. Dr. Hezekiah Smith, for 

 many years a Baptist preacher and a Fellow of Brown University ; 

 and so, after preparing for college at the Boston Latin School, he 

 completed his education at Brown University, and graduated there in 

 1838 at the head of a distinguished class. Of his own distinction in 

 college a pleasant picture is given by a contemporary, in Mr. Charles 

 T. Congdon's " Reminiscences of a Journalist," Boston, J. R. Osgood 

 & Co., 1880) : "In the class of 1838 was Mr. Justice Bradley of 

 Rhode Island, the first scholar, I think, of his year, of whom we did 

 predict great things. There is something pleasant in the loyal way in 

 which lads in college recognize an associate of superior ability and 

 special promise. ... So we all talked of Bradley. When he was to 

 speak in the chapel after evening prayers, how irreverently eager we 

 were for the devotions to be over that we might listen to our favorite ! 

 There were other clever fellows, of course, but none so clever as he. 

 He handled all topics, philosophical, political, and literary, with such 

 force and ease that we held the matter hardly second to the manner, 

 though the manner was as nearly perfect as any elocution could be ; 

 yet there were doubters who thought that George Van Ness Lothrop, 

 now an eminent lawyer of Michigan, was, if possible, the greater man. 

 Of the comparative merits of these two, the discussions ran high, but 

 there was no discussion of the rival claims of anybody else." Mr. 

 Lothrop was the first Minister to Russia under President Cleveland, 

 and one of Judge Bradley's sons now bears his name. 



He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and at Providence in 



