'Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



" Oh, cut off 

 Untimely! when thy reason in its strength 

 Ripened by years of toil and studious search, 

 And watch of nature's silent lessons, taught 

 Thy hand to practice best the lenient art 

 To which thou gavest thy laborious days. 

 And last, thy life. And therefore, when the earth 

 Received thee, tears were in unyielding eyes 

 And on hard cheeks, and they who deemed thy skill 

 Delayed their death-hour shuddered and turned pale 

 When thou wert gone." 



Charles Durv, 

 Geo. W. H.\rper, 

 Davis L. James, 



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