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an acquaintance with almost every man who had 

 any pretensions to science ; and he did much to 

 encourage them, and to bring them in contact 

 with each other. At the same time, his eye was 

 always open, and on the watch for any thing that 

 might be of importance to the Museum or to the 

 Journal of the Natural History Society. 



While a member of the Legislature, in 1836-7, 

 he used his endeavors to sustain the State Geo- 

 logical Survey, then in process by Prof Hitch- 

 cock, and was jorincipally instrumental in having 

 attached to it the Commission for the Zoological 

 Survey also, the results of which have been so 

 important. He also secured for the Natural His- 

 tory Society an appropriation from the Legisla- 

 ture, which, small as it was, was infinitely import- 

 ant at that time. 



To the Natural History Society, he was, at the 

 same time, the patron, the fellow-laborer, the Pre- 

 sident. He stood with it, and yet with the world, 

 a link to bring them in contact. Having been 

 instrumental in its organization, having watched 

 and fostered it through its days of feebleness and 

 small things, and having passed through its vari- 

 ous offices till he had become its head, — his 

 name, his fame, his labors, and his fortune were 



