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50. On the Occurrence of Massive Datholite in the Mines of Lake Superior. 



Proc. Bost. Nat. Hist. ISac., VIU., 1861-62, pp. 62-04. 



51. Description and Analysis of a new Kind of Bitumen. Proc. Bost. Nat. 



Hist. Soc, X., 18GG, pp. 306, 307. 



52. On the Cause of tlie Color of the Water of Lake Leman, Geneva. Amer. 



Journ. Sci., XLIX., 1870, pp. 186-189; Cosmos, VII., 1870, pp. 125-128. 



53. On the Lignites of Middle and Southern Italy. Chemical News, XXL, 1870, 



p. 157. 

 5L On the Red Oxide of Zinc of New Jersey. Amer. Journ. Sci., IV., 1872, 



pp. 191-198. 

 55. On a Practical Test of the Condition and Composition of Natural Waters. 



Amer. Acad. Proc, IX., 1874, pp. 78-81. 

 50. On tlie Wide Diffusion of Vanadium and its Association with Phosphorus 



in many Rocks. Amer. Acad. Proc, X., 1875, pp. 294-299. 



CHANDLER ROBBINS. 



Chandler Robbins was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, Feb- 

 ruary 14, 1810. He graduated at Harvard University in 1829, having 

 maintained a high rank in a class of unusual ability and promise. He 

 spent a year as a teacher in the Boston Latin School, and then entered 

 the Cambridge Divinity School. In 1833 he became pastor of the 

 Second Church in Boston, succeeding in that office Ralph "Waldo 

 Emerson. He resigned his pastorate in 1874, and died at Weston, 

 Massachusetts, September 11, 1882. In his profession he was success- 

 ful as a preacher; eminently assiduous, faithful, and beloved, as a 

 pastor. His style was chaste and pure, his delivery graceful. He 

 possessed in full measure the endowments that belong to the Christian 

 gentleman, scholar, and minister. He had a by no means shallow 

 vein of poetical sentiment, and contributed to the hymnology of the 

 Church several favorite Christian lyrics. His principal extra-profes- 

 sional labors were in the department of history, in which he published 

 many discourses, lectures, and articles, besides serving for many years 

 in various offices in the Massachusetts Historical Society, and aiding 

 in the preparation and editorship of several volumes of its collections. 

 In 1855 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Harvard 

 University. For the latter years of his life a gradual failure of eye- 

 sight, terminating in total blindness, disabled him for active duty, and 

 at the same time brought into conspicuous exercise those, passive 

 virtues which grow only fi'om profound religious faith, trust, and 

 experience. 



