Kuschenberger.] -LJ-O [Nov. 6, 



admirably, a reprint of liis annual reports and other papers on 

 the geology of the Virginias. 



In 1853 he resigned from the University of Virginia, after 

 eighteen j'ears of efficient service, and transferred his domicile to 

 Boston. During the earlier years of his residence here he de- 

 livered two or more courses of Lowell lectures, and contributed 

 to the attractions of the Thursday Evening Scientific Club, of 

 which he was president several years. 



He was present at a meeting of the British Association in 

 Dublin, 1857, and early in 1859 he began the foundation of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was incorporated 

 in 1862, chiefly through his exertions and influence. He was 

 elected president of it, April 8, 1862. Impaired health caused 

 him to resign the office in the autumn of 1868. He was induced 

 to accept it again in 1818, but infirmity compelled him to re- 

 linquish the post in 1881. 



He was appointed inspector of gas and gas meters for the 

 State of Massachusetts, in 1861, and, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Rogers, he went to Europe in 1864, to collect models of ma- 

 chinery and apparatus for the use of the Institute of Technology. 

 At the meeting of the British Association for that year, he pre- 

 sented a paper entitled An account of apparatus and processes 

 for chemical and photometrical testing of illuminating gas. 



News of the serious illness of his brother Henry, then Regius 

 Professor of the Natural Sciences in the University of Glasgow, 

 hurried him and Dr. Robert E. to Europe in 1866, but his 

 brother died before their arrival. On this sad errand they were 

 absent only a few weeks. 



In 1867 he was appointed Commissioner to represent the State 

 of Massachusetts at the Paris Exhibition, and during the sum- 

 mer visited it' almost daily. 



The Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., conferred upon 

 him, in 1866, the honorary degree of L.L.D., and he was elected 

 President of the National Academy of Science to succeed Joseph 

 Henry, who died May lath, 18*18. 



At the meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1876, he was elected Presi- 

 dent; but he Was unable to be present at the meeting of 1877. 

 " Had I been able," he wrote from Newport, August 22, to the 



