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eugine and the great economy of fuel. These results were i^ublished.* 

 Latterly, however, with American versatility, he turned his attention 

 almost exclusively to the subject of political economy. Approaching 

 the subject from the practical side, with a life's experience in the pro- 

 cesses of commerce, and with a reach of mind gained by a world-wide 

 survey of the affairs of all nations, and with a masterly comprehension 

 of the works of the other economists, he deliberately and dispassion- 

 ately, but steadfastly, adopted the views of the protectionists. He 

 wrote much on that side of this important question of American policy, 

 and favored all means of defending our interests against the aggres- 

 sions of British manufacturers. His articles and pamphlets were 

 distributed gratuitously by him to all public libraries and colleges in 

 the Union, aud to many private persons who were interested in the 

 subject therein discussed. 



His style is vigorous, logical, and terse ; and he wrote with firm 

 conviction, generous impulses, and with views, as he thought, far- 

 reaching for the welfare of his country. 



He died in Boston, of pueumonia, on the 10th of April, 1885, 

 after an illness of a few days, at the age of seventy years and four 

 months. 



CHARLES EDWARD HAMLIN. 



Charles Edward Hamlin, who was for more than twelve years 

 connected with the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, died at his home in Cambridge, January 3, 1886, after an ill- 

 ness of between two and three months, ending in acute pneumonia 

 complicated with other disease. He was in the sixty-first year of his 

 age, having been born in Augusta, Maine, February 4, 1825. Gradu- 

 ated from Waterville College, now Colby University, in 1847, he was 

 during the next six years successively a teacher in schools of high 

 grade at Brandon, Vermont, Bath, Maine, and Suffield, Connecticut. 

 He was then appointed Professor of Chemistry and Natural History 

 at Waterville, and for twenty years remained at this post an ardent 

 and successful teacher of these subjects, often, however, assisting in 



* A Paper on Cylindrical Condensation, Steam Jackets, Compound Engines, 

 and Superheated Steam, by George Basil Dixwell. Read before the Society of 

 Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, April 29 and May 

 13, 1875. Printed at Boston, 1875. 



Report of Engineers of the U. S. Navy upon Experiments with Saturated 

 and Superheated Steam made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 March, 1877. Printed at Boston, 1877. 



