442 CHARLES AVERY." 



of the warmest regard and the fullest gratitude. While Agassiz would 

 receive no personal emolument for his laborious work, he had the most 

 generous sense of the claims of high science on men of wealth, and he 

 deli"-hted to give them the most favorable opportunities for advan- 

 cing it. 



Another of the admirable provisions made by Mr. Thayer, through 

 his friend Professor Gray, in meeting the ever-multiplying needs of 

 the University, was in erecting and furnishing, in 1874, at a cost of 

 over $ 15,000, the fire-proof Herbarium ou the grounds of the Botanic 

 Garden. 



ASSOCIATE FELLOWS. 



CHARLES AVERY. 



Charles Avert was born in Munson, Mass., July 29, 1795. He 

 died at his home in Clinton, N. Y., May 20, 1883. He was the son 

 of Gardner Avery and Amy Newell, who in 1810 removed with their 

 large family to Sauquoit, Oneida Co., N. Y. He belonged to a gen- 

 eration which is now fast passing away, when the advantages for 

 education were comparatively rare, and were prized in proportion to 

 their rarity. His early education was the result of his own energy 

 and thirst for knowledge. He early evinced a marked taste for stud- 

 ies in mathematics and science. In a sketch of his own life he said, 

 " At the awe of seventeen I found myself at evening solving questions 

 in arithmetic which had been proposed by young pedagogues as chal- 

 lenges." This was the awakening of that love for mathematical in- 

 vestigation which characterized his entire life, — a love to which he 

 gave expression in his old age when he spoke of " the delightful 

 science of figures." 



Id 1816 he entered Hamilton College, was graduated in 1820, and 

 on October 1, 1822, was married to Delia Strong, daughter of Rev. 

 Joseph Strong of Heath, and sister of Professor Theodore Strong, the 

 distinguished mathematician. After completing his college studies he 

 was engaged for fourteen years in teaching in various academies in 

 the State "of New York, — viz. at Horner, Fairfield, and Belleville. 



His work as an instructor was successful in a high degree. His 

 success at Horner was such as to give him considerable reputation, 

 and to secure him a call to Fairfield, — a call, the wisdom of which 



