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removed, and the world was compelled to go on without him, 

 while in his loneliness he awaited the inevitable. 



What will be his fame as time goes on ? Upon what will it 

 mainly rest? In several lines of work he achieved distinction, 

 even eminence. His most enduring fame will be that of a 

 student and translator of the earth's organic history. Possibly 

 in time his pubhshed work may be superseded by fuller and more 

 thorough treatises. But if he did sacrifice the fixture reputa- 

 tion, that required specializing and limitation, it was for the 

 sake of broader scholarship and greater peisonal influence. If 

 he be less influential in the printed page of future science he 

 was the more powerful as a formative force in the day lie lived. 

 If he be less known of men in the coming years, it was to be 

 better known of men while living, and to carry into the eternity 

 a richer life and a broader intellect. Can we doubt which is the 

 better fame? Dr. Newberry will live in a silent but a nobler 

 way than merely b}^ printed pages, in the universe of intellectual 

 and moral forces, wherein must ever be the impress of his life. 

 And his best renown is in the hearts of the many, who as young 

 men and beginners in scientific work, felt his sympathy, caught 

 some of his enthusiasm, and were by him stimulated and 

 invigorated for life's work. 



Professor James F. Kemp presented the following letters : 



NO. I. 



Letter from A. St. J. Newberry regarding Dr. Newberry's 

 ancestry : 



CiiEVEiiAND, March 14, 1893. 

 Prof. H. L. Fairchild. 



Dear Sir — My mother has forwarded me your letter of the 8th inst., 

 requesting that I should give you information, so far as I can, concerning 

 Prof. John Strong Newberry's family history in America. 



I tal<e pleasure in submitting the following statement of facts : 

 Thomas Newberry, of Devonshire, England, settled in Dorchester, 

 Massachusetts, about 1630. He died there about January, 1636, and his 

 widow and children removed to Windsor, Connecticut, about the same 

 year. His son, Capt. Benjamin Newberiy, was the first named of seven 

 (7) proprietors to whom Windsor was patented in 1685. He commanded 

 the Military of the Colony. He left two (2) sons, Thomas, who was the 

 ancestor of the Detroit and Chicago Newberrys, and Benjamin, who wa& 



