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 Smithson, James — Continued. 



earnest pursuits of science 145 



scientific ambition 145 



Arago's estimate of the Royal Society 145 



name James Lewis Macie 145 



recommendation of application to Royal Society 146 



elected member of Royal Society 146 



tours and explorations 146, 148 



portable laboratory 147 



cabinet of minerals 147 



minute researches 147 



privations encountered on explorations 147 



extracts from journal 147 



friendship of eminent savans 148 



presentation of books to 148 



Sir Davies Gilbert's estimate of, as chemist 148 



Prof. W. R. Johnson's opinion of works of 149 



labors in mineralogy aud crystallography 149 



Motto on publications of 150 



Smithsonite 150 



analysis of vegetable colors 150 



practical value of his researches 150 



notes and scraps found among his effects 151 



list of writings of 151, 152 



allusion made to other writers by 153 



death of 153 



his monument at Genoa 153 



Sir Davies Gilbert's tribute to his memory 153 



analysis of a tear 153 



remarks of Dr. Johnson and George Wilson on lack of de- 

 tails of private life of scientific men 155 



no autobiography of. - 155 



inventory of his personal effects . 155 



personal effects transferred to Mr. Rush 157 



the same transferred to the National Institute 157 



F. Markoe's account of mineral cabinet 158 



notice of various portraits of 158 



personal effects exhibited in Patent Office 158 



same transferred to Smithsonian Institution 158 



effects destroyed by fire 158 



will of, deliberately made 159 



account of book on wills found in library 159 



motives inducing the bequest, to the United States 160 



scientific activity of the period 160 



organization of leading scientific societies 161 



remarkable advances in science noted by Arago 161 



Cuvier's retrospect of the same 162 



educational progress of the period 162 



Lord Brougham's effort in behalf of diffusion of knowledge. 162 



Society for the 1 illusion of Useful Knowledge organized. . . 163 



purpose of, to leave fortune to the Royal Society 163 



cosmopolitan spirit of the Royal Society 164 



est ate received from Col. Henry Louis Dickinson 164 



will of, proved in court 165 



