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identified with the Society ; and in its social rela- 

 tions he was in a position to render services which 

 no survivor has the power of rendering. He had 

 hoped that by his visit to Europe he should be 

 enabled to form acquaintances with scientific men, 

 and their modes and facilities for investigation ; 

 to learn the best arrangement for a cabinet, and 

 the best modes of preserving objects ; to negotiate 

 exchanges, and make large additions to his li- 

 brary; by which his future connection with the 

 Society, especially at the juncture when plans 

 for the permanent arrangement and preservation 

 of the Cabinet were likely to be needed, might 

 become of the greatest possible advantage. 



Nor was he less qualified, or less disposed, to 

 promote the interests of art among us. Ill as lie 

 was in Europe, he never lost sight of the two 

 institutions which he had determined to foster ; 

 and he was daily seeking to obtain collections 

 for the one, and rare books and paintings for the 

 other. Several arrangements with this view had 

 been entered into, which were interrupted by his 

 illness, and more or less defeated by his death. 



It is due both to him and to the history of 

 American Art to record, that with a view to the 

 encouragement of American Artists, he had pro- 



