CHARLES EDWARD HAMLIN. 525 



Other departments as occasion required. For a long period be kept 

 the obituary record of the Alumni Association of his college, and con- 

 tinued to the end one of the most esteemed and beloved friends and 

 counsellors of the institution. 



So faithful was the young Professor to his work, and so earnest to 

 maintain the standard of his knowledge at the level of the most recent 

 advances in the branches which he taught, that, for several years after 

 his appointment at Waterville, he spent his winter vacations in prac- 

 tical scientific study at the laboratories of Harvard University, — first 

 in the Chemical Department under Professor Cooke, and afterwards 

 in the Department of Zoology under Professor Agassiz. He thus ac- 

 quired such a love for scientific investigation that, in 1873, he removed 

 to Cambridge, accepting an appointment as Assistant in Conchology 

 and Palaeontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. During 

 one or two of the earlier years in his new home he gave instruction 

 in geography and geology ; but he soon relinquished teaching, and 

 was occupied solely with his work in the Museum, the traditions of 

 whose founder were congenial to his spirit. An invitation in recent 

 years to resume his old position at Waterville, as well as a similar 

 overture from Brown University, was declined ; but he constantly 

 attended the " Commencements " of his college, where he was always 

 received with a hearty welcome. In 1873 he was honored with the 

 degree of LL. D. from the University at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 

 and in 1880 he was appointed one of the Trustees of the larger institu- 

 tion, now called Colby University, into which his well-beloved college 

 had grown. 



Professor Hamlin was an enthusiastic ex[)lorer of his own State, 

 and was especially familiar with Mount Katahdin, which he often 

 visited, and of which he made a model to illustrate his long and de- 

 lightful studies of that mountainous region. Some years before his 

 death he enjoyed the pleasure and advantages of a journey in Europe, 

 and he greatly improved the opportunity for his own cultivation, as 

 well as for the benefit of the department of the Museum which he had 

 in charge. Professor Hamlin was a student rather than a writer ; 

 but he published several occasional papers, among which may be men- 

 tioned, "Observations during Visits to Mount Katahdin, Maine"; 

 "A Report of an Examination of Syrian Fossils" (a collection sent to 

 the Museum by the Rev. Selah Merrill, D. D., while U. S. Consul at 

 Jerusalem) ; and, lastly, " The Attitude of the Christian Teacher in 

 Respect to Science " (an address read before an educational conven- 

 tion of his own denomination at Worcester, Mass., in 1871). 



