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character in the so-called moderate drinker, they mutely appeal for 

 aid, and we brutally fine, imprison, and persecute them. These are 

 the spirit and theory which seek support through temperance efforts, 

 through the church, and political parties, to remove an evil of which 

 they have no comprehension. When all this thunder and roar of 

 temperance reformation shall pass away, the still small voice of Sci- 

 ence will be heard, and the true condition of the inebriate and the 

 nature of his malady will be recognized. 



SKETCH OF PROFESSOR EDWARD S. HOLDEN. 



By WILLIAM C. WINLOCK. 



PROFESSOR EDWARD SINGLETON HOLDEN, the Presi- 

 dent of the University of California, and Director of the Lick 

 Observatory, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on the 5th of Novem- 

 ber, 1846. He is a direct descendant of Justinian Holden, who came 

 to this country from Kent, England, in 1636, and settled in Massachu- 

 setts on a tract of land which now forms a part of the city of Cam- 

 bridge, but was then called, I believe, Watertown. Dr. William 

 Holden, grandson of Justinian Holden, and Professor Holden's great- 

 grandfather, afterward moved from Cambridge to Dorchester, Massa- 

 chusetts, where the family resided till about 1830. The first eight 

 years of Professor Holden's life were spent in St Louis, but about 1854 

 he was taken to Cambridge and placed at the private schools taught 

 by Miss Ware and Miss Harris. It was during the six years spent 

 here that he received his first idea of astronomy — from his cousin, 

 Professor George P. Bond, then Director of Harvard College Observa- 

 tory — and a certain occasion upon which he first saw the bright star 

 a Lyrae through the fifteen-inch telescope made a lasting impression 

 upon his mind. 



In 1860 Holden returned to St. Louis and entered the preparatory 

 academy of Washington University, from which, after two years' 

 study, he passed into the Scientific School of the university. The 

 young student soon attracted the attention of Professor Chauvenet, 

 the accomplished mathematician and astronomer, then Chancellor of 

 the University. Professor Chauvenet spent the winter of 1864-'65 in 

 Minnesota for the benefit of his health, and during this time Mr. Hol- 

 den formed a part of his household, and prosecuted his studies directly 

 under Professor Chauvenet's eye. 



In 1866 we find him assisting Dr. Gould in collecting the statis- 

 tics of the United States volunteer soldiers from the State of Mis- 

 souri, for the "Investigations in the Military and Anthropological 



