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memorials ; first, a silver teapot, (copied from one formerly used by 

 Tutor Flynt, now in the possession of Dr. O. W. Holmes,) which 

 will be handed down as an heirloom in his family ; and, secondly, a 

 portrait painted by Linden Smith, which will hold his likeness on the 

 walls of Memorial Hall. 



Professor Lovering was married in 1844 to Sarah Gray Hawes 

 of Boston, and his wife, with two sons and two daughters, survive 

 him. Since retiring from active work, he has passed four serene and 

 happy years. He several times said to the writer, " You don't know 

 what a pleasure it is to be relieved from stated duties, and to have 

 full command of your time. I have plenty to do, and never have an 

 idle moment." Through great prudence and thrift he had laid aside 

 a sufficient competency to relieve him from all pecuniary anxieties 

 and his friends had hoped that he might long pass the full term 

 of fourscore years. His wonderful vitality and singular immunity 

 from disease encouraged this hope. He said to his classmate, Dr. 

 Morrill Wyman, who had been his family physician for half a century, 

 and who was feeling his pulse during his last illness, " No one has 

 felt my pulse before since I was a child." But it was not to be. 

 A severe cold complicated by the prevailing epidemic attacked the 

 heart, and the end came in the early morning of January 18, 1892. 

 The change was peaceful, and without pain. 



The following catalogue of Professor Lovering's publications is 

 taken from the College Class-book entitled "Memorials of the Class 

 of 1833 of Harvard College, prepared for the Fiftieth Anniversary 

 of their Graduation by the Class Secretary, Waldo Higginson " ; 

 and preceding the catalogue the Secretary states that it was fur- 

 nished by Professor Lovering. The present writer has only added 

 a few items of papers which to his knowledge have appeared 

 since. 



1. An Account of the Magnetic Observations made at the Magnetic 



Observatory of Harvard College. In Two Parts. (Memoirs of the 

 American Academy, vol. ii., 1846.) 



2. On the Secular Periodicity of the Aurora Borealis. (Ibid., vol. 



ix.) 



3. On the Determination of Transatlantic Longitudes by Means of the 



Telegraphic Cables. (Ibid., 18G7.) 



4. Catalogue of Auroras observed, mostly at Cambridge, after 1838. 



(Ibid., vol. x., 1868.) 



5. On the Periodicity of the Aurora Borealis. In Two Parts. (Ibid., 



with plates, 1868.) 



