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the Walnut Street Baptist Church. He was active in every benevolent 

 and charitable work. His charity knew no sect nor creed, but his 

 ear and purse were open to all real suffering. He founded and largely 

 endowed the Baptists' Orphan Home of Louisville, thereby erecting a 

 monument more noble and enduring than marble or brass. 



Professor Smith said, " Life has been very sweet to me. It comforts 

 me. How I pity those to whom memory brings no pleasure ! " He 

 had " set his house in order," saying he knew it would be but a short 

 time before death would claim him ; but he was ready to go at any 

 hour or day. He leaves the memory of a pure life and a heart full 

 of "exercised humanity." 



FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS. 



JOACHIM BARRANDE. 



In the department of the Haute-Loire, on the borders of the central 

 plateau of France, between Auvergue and the Vivarais, lies the little 

 town of Saugues, where, on the 11th of August, 1779, Joachim Bar- 

 rande was born. Graduating among the first scholars of the Poly- 

 technic School at Paris, he was appointed engineer at Decize (Xievre), 

 and there constructed an aqueduct {pont-canal) over the river Loire 

 that gave him a celebrity among the proficients in that department 

 of science. The presentation of Barrande to the Dauphin, the Due 

 dAngouleme, occurred during his stay at Decize, which place the Due 

 visited in the course of his travels through France. The Dauphin 

 was much impressed by the character, the manners, and the great 

 learning of the young engineer, and a little later, when a preceptor 

 was desired for the instruction of the Comte de Chambord in science, 

 he recommended Barrande warmly to the King, Charles X.. for that 

 position ; the literary and religious education of the heir of the elder 

 Bourbon family was given already in charge to Tariu, Bishop of 

 Strasbourg. This unsolicited nomination to a place eagerly sought by 

 many savants of that time filled Barrande with joy, and he accepted 

 it with all the grave responsibilities he foresaw in the future, but with- 

 out a thought that he was thus devoting himself to perpetual exile. 

 At the Tuileries he organized a chemical and physical laboratory for 

 the use of his royal pupil, but the revolution of 1830 soon put an end 

 to his residence in this palace; the mob invaded his laboratory and 



