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who have been recently removed by death, — men of original 

 research and large contributors to tlie extension of the bound- 

 aries of science, — men equally notable for their blameless lives 

 and scientific attainments, — Forbes, Johnston, Redfield, Thomp- 

 son, Harris, Warren, — we have now to associate the name 

 of Bailey, for a long time one of the professors at West Point. 

 None who have had the good fortune to know him can fail to 

 appreciate his truly philosophical spirit, his zeal, his accuracy, 

 and his extreme modesty. 



With his early life I am unacquainted, and so far as I know, the 

 first paper of any extent which he communicated, was one which 

 he read to the Association of Geologists and Naturalists at their 

 meeting in Boston in 1843, entitled " Sketch of the Infusoria of 

 the family Bacillaria, with some account of the most interesting 

 species which have been found in a recent or fossil condition in the 

 United States." It extended to upwards of fifty pages, was illus- 

 trated by six plates and gave him at once a high place among 

 scientific men. Since then he has published numerous papers, 

 mostly in Silliman's Joui'nal, on the microscopic forms of animal 

 and vegetable life, to which, and to the perfection of the micro- 

 scope as an optical instrument, he chiefly limited his investiga- 

 tions. Prof. Harvey, in the introduction to his work on the 

 Algae of North America, thus writes : " Well known in his 

 own peculiar branch of science, he has found a relaxation from 

 more wearing thought in exploring the microscopic world, and 

 his various papers on what may be called ' vegetable atoms,' 

 (Diatomacea^) are widely known and highly appreciated. From 

 him I received the first specimens of United States Alg^e which 

 I possessed ; and, though residing at a distance from the coast, 

 he has been of essential service in diffusing a taste for this 

 department of botany." I think none will gainsay me when I 

 characterize him as the Ehrenberg of America, — and that in 

 having been selected to preside at the next meeting of the 

 American Association for Science, he had received but a merited 

 honor. 



Resolved, That in the death of Prof. Jacob W. Bailey, we, in 

 common with the numerous scientific associations with which he 

 was connected, deplore the loss of a true philosopher, a laborious 

 coadjutor, and a most amiable man. 



