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Harmony, in the state of Indiana. He was throughout life 

 one of the most simple and retiring of men ; his habits, mode 

 of address, and clothing, seem to carry one back to the 

 patriarchal ages, yet he was well informed on all subjects, and 

 perfectly acquainted with the scientific and political events of 

 the day. He inquired, with an eager interest, of every person 

 capable of affording him information, and was equally willing 

 to communicate, in the most pleasing and easy manner, any 

 information which he possessed. He took a peculiar pleasure 

 in instructing the young, and so managed his discourse, that 

 even children considered him as a kind and agreeable friend, 

 and an enjoyable companion, rather than a tutor. The 

 Athenceum, of 20th December, noticing his death, gives the 

 following extract from the United States National Gazette: — 

 " To his native genius, supported by untiring zeal and inde- 

 fatigable research, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia is indebted for its opening reputation. Mr. Say was 

 among the earliest members, if not one of the founders, of 

 this institution. His original communications to the Society 

 alone, in the most abstruse and laborious departments of 

 Zoology, Crustacea, Testacea, Insecta, &c. of the United 

 States, occupy more than 800 printed pages of their journal. 

 His Essays, published in the Transactions of the American 

 Philosophical Society, the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural 

 History at New York, in Silliman's Journal, &c. are equally 

 respectable, perhaps equally numerous. His contributions to 

 the American Encyclopedia, though highly valuable, are not 

 so generally known. His separate work on American Ento- 

 mology, and another on Conchology, have met with the 

 approbation of the learned. With the brilliant results of his 

 laborious exertions, as naturalist to the two celebrated expe- 

 ditions by the authority of the United States Government, 

 under the command of Major, now Lieut. -Colonel S. H. Long, 

 the reading public is already familiar. Some years previously, 

 he accompanied Mr. M'Clure, and other kindred spirits, on 

 a scientific excursion to the Floridas. The pages of the 

 Academy's Journal were subsequently enriched by the fruits 

 of this undertaking. These expeditions, with occasional 

 excursions made with similar views, in the vicinity of Phila- 

 delphia, constitute the only interruptions to a laborious course 

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