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fessional students, while he made them feel profoundly the inmost 

 meaning and spirit of their Gospel lessons. No seeker for knowl- 

 edge on the subjects within his range ever failed to receive all that he 

 asked, or more. Strangers became his neighbors and kindred, when 

 they gave him the oppoi'tunity of serving them. 



Dr. Abbot was far from being a sj^ecialist in a limited sense. His 

 scholarsliip was broad and large. His literary taste was singularly 

 pure and delicate. He had, too, a keen relish for mirth, gayety, and 

 humor; and, in his own speech and social intercourse, he illustrated 

 the close kindred, indicated by their common family name, of wit and 

 wisdom. He gave himself seasons of leisure and recreation too spar- 

 ingly ; but no one can have enjoyed such seasons more than he, or 

 have made them more richly tributary to the enjoyment of others. 



The beauty of his character was pre-eminently a " beauty of holi- 

 ness." His whole soul and life were moulded, penetrated, and filled 

 by the power and love of the Saviour, whose Gospel was his perpet- 

 ual study. For those who knew him there is no need that we speak 

 in detail of those traits of character that made him in his home and to 

 all his friends unspeakably dear, and that leave a memory which lias 

 in it fully as much of hope as of sorrow ; for there is nothing but his 

 frail body which can be thought of as not living on in the light of 

 heaven, and awaiting for those whom he has left the reunion to which 

 there is no parting. 



CALVIN ELLIS. 



Dr. Calvin Ellis was elected a Fellow of this Academy on No- 

 vember 9, 1859. He never held office nor made any communication 

 to it. His writings were chiefly medical ; and they, with his high 

 repute as Professor of Clinical Medicine in Harvard University, as 

 a Reformer in the modes of medical instruction, and as a Physician 

 in Boston, make him an honor to the Academy, and the Peer of any 

 one therein. 



He was born in Boston, Augiist 15, 1826, and died on December 

 14, 1883. He was a lineal descendant, in the seventh generation, of a 

 farmer named Ellis, who, with some of his fellow townsmen, emigrated 

 to New England, in 1G34, from old Dedham, county of Essex, England. 

 They bought a large tract of land about fifteen miles from Boston, 

 and called the town Dedham, which name it still retains. The Ellis 

 estate has always been occupied by one of the descendants. Each 

 generation has borne the reputation of loving and honoring work, and 

 a desire for mental culture gradually sprang up among them. Our 



