MEMOIR OF GUYOT. 719 



the words of Prof. Louis Favre, "the finest monument that could be 

 erected to the memory of a savant who had brought so much honor to 

 his native land." 



In 1867 Guyot married a daughter of the late Governor Haines, of 

 New Jersey, a lady of intelligence and refinement, who made for him 

 the happiest of homes ; and his gentleness, consideration, and warmth 

 of heart fitted him to contribute his share to that happiness. 



Gnyot's face and manner betokened deep and earnest thought rather 

 than enthusiasm and qniet self-possession without s<elf- assertion. A 

 man of medium height, deep set eyes, and spare tigure, he looked as if 

 made more for thinking than for acting, and yet his power of walking 

 and climbing seems to have had no bounds, and scarcely failed him at 

 all until after his threescore and ten had been passed. The greatest 

 ascents gave his well-trained muscles no more fatigue than a walk in 

 his garden; and pathless tangled forests for weeks in succession, with 

 nights in the wild woods, were a source of great enjoyment. On the 

 29th of December, 1883, hardly six weeks before his decease, he wrote 

 to the i)resident of the Society of Natural Sciences of Neuchatel, M. 

 Coulon, after congratulating him on keeping up his walks to Chau- 

 mont, although then eighty years of age, " Even last year I could have 

 told you of my seventy-six years and my ability still to climb our 

 mountains, but unhappily it is not so now."* 



His special weakness was a virtue in excess, an unobtruslveness 

 that disinclined him to assert himself, that made him too easily content 

 with work without publication. Hence his results and original views 

 often failed of recognition, and but one of his projected works of the 

 higher series was ever completed. In a letter of November 15, 1858, 

 in replying to one who had urged him to publish, he says : "And I am 

 A. G., who thinks a good deal and delights in it, but is too easily satis- 

 fied with that selfish pleasure." Yet much of this reluctance was, as 

 before said, owing to the hesitation of his critical mind in the use of the 

 English language. Besides, he was ever waiting for more facts. And, 

 too, he was overburdened, as he often said, with his educational labors. 

 In accordance with his unassuming ways, he did not become a natura- 

 lized citizen of his adopted country until 1860, he feeling, rather than 

 reasoning, tliat a foreigner should not hasten to intrude himself into 

 political affairs. 



Although indisposed to push himself, still, when in conversation with 

 a man of like intelligence, he was sure to command eager attention, and, 

 without other effort, to find places of honor and congenial work open to 

 him. Within six months of his arrival in the country, a talk in Phila- 

 delphia with Professor Henry gained for him the position of a virtual 

 manager in the meteorological department of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, and, by similar means, there came about his connection with the 



* Memorial sketch of A. Guyot, by Prof. L. Favre, vice-president. Bull. Soc. Sci. 

 Nat. Neuchatel, xiv, 327, 1884. 



