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entific fruits, to be earned by honest devotion to study, did it not give 

 us reason to expect? Tlie question suggests its own answer. Cer- 

 tainly lie would have done much towards encouraging scientific pur- 

 suits in the rising generation, and in gaining for American Botanical 

 investigation a more general acknowledgment abroad. Already a host 

 of our young Naturalists are forcing the admiration of other nations, 

 and among the foremost of that host was Horace Mann. As a writer 

 he was clear and concise ; points of the utmost importance to a scien- 

 tist. 



"When Mr. Mann's death was announced to the Essex Institute, that 

 body at once passed the following resolutions : 



"Hesolved, That the members of the Essex Institute most deeply 

 sjmipathize with the family and friends of their late associate, Horace 

 Mann, whose sudden death not only casts a deep sorrow on the hearts 

 of those near and dear to him, but also into the scientific bodies with 

 which he was connected; and deprives his loved science of Botany of 

 one of its most devoted and conscientious investigators, and of one, 

 who, had he been permitted, would from his purity and depth of 

 thought, undoubtedly make one of the leading botanists of his gener- 

 ation. 



Resolved, That Dr. A. S. Packard* be requested to prepare a memoir 

 of Mr. Horace Mann, to be published in the " Proceedings of the Essex 

 Institute." 



Besolvpd, That the Secretary be requested to transmit a copy of 

 these resolutions to the family of our late associate, and to tender to 

 them our condolence and sympathj' in this bereavement." 



These resolutions were accompanied with eloquent and touching 

 recitals of the services Mr. Mann had rendered the Natural Sciences, 

 and with mention of his rare and promising talents, by the President, 

 Dr. Wheatland, Mr. F. W. Putnam, Mr. Alpheus Hyatt, Dr. G. B. 

 Loring and others. 



Tor years he had been Curator of the botanical department of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, and in the discharge of his duty 

 there, it is needless to say, he left a good reputation. It has already 

 been said that "his advice in the council was always sensible." The 

 evening of the day on which he died, the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences elected him a member by an unanimous vote. There can 

 be no doubt but that this tribute to his moral worth and scientific 

 attainments would have been grateful to him. It came too late. He 

 had already passed to a sphere where it is pleasant to think he will be 

 no more interrupted in his contemplation of Creator and creation. 



Is anything lacking in the son's character to make us feel that he 

 did not realize the father's ideal, so forcibly expressed in many of his 

 written words? As for instance, in speaking of the choice of a life- 

 work by a high-toned man. 



*This sketch was prei>ared by another fellow student, at his own earnest re- 

 quest. 



