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There are other characteristics of his to which it is not within the 

 limits of the present notice to make more than a passing reference. 

 It is enough to say, in general terms, that those who knew him best 

 esteemed him most. The affectionate regard in whicli he always 

 continued to be held by the men once brought into close communiou 

 with him by the nature of their special studies was due full as much 

 to the respect inspired by his moral qualities as by those purely intel- 

 lectual. His sincerity, his disinterestedness, his unflinching devo- 

 tion to duty, could not fail to impress profoundly all with whom he 

 came into constant contact. Speaking for myself personally, I may 

 be permitted to say, in conclusion, after the intimate associations of 

 twenty-five years, that never have I known a man more unselfish in 

 his dealings with others, more loyal to his friends, more genuine 

 in profession, and more upright in every relation of life than he, 

 who held unchallenged during the whole of his career the position of 

 foremost of American philologists. 



1895. Thomas R. Lounsbury. 



FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS. 



CHARLES EDOUARD BROWN-SEQUARD. 



Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard * was born at Port Louis, 

 on the island of Mauritius, April 8, 1817, and died at Paris, April 2, 

 1894. His father was an American sea-captain, and his mother, 

 Madame Sequard, was a native of Provence. Left without resources 

 by her husband's death just before the birth of her child, she managed 

 to support herself and him by her needle, and to give him a care and 

 training which gained her his deep love and devotion, and doubtless 

 fostered the affectionate and domestic traits of his disposition which 

 characterized him throughout his life. The extraordinary industry 

 and singleness of purpose which he afterwards showed must have had 

 their root in fine inborn qualities of mind, but his early simple life. 

 with its traditions of hard work and self-reliance, was a good school for 

 virtues of this order. 



As a young man, and while supporting himself as agent for a large 



* For many interesting facts relating to his life and works, see an address 

 by Eugene Dupuy, published in the Transactions of the Socie'te de Biologic, 

 1894, which is my authority for most of the data here given. 



