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The Committee would recommend that a selection should be 

 made of such as contain valuable scientific facts, and that these 

 be arranged alphabetically and bound ; the remainder to be kept 

 in bundles, as they now are. 



In conclusion, the Committee would congratulate the Society 

 in having been made the recipients of scientific treasures so rich 

 and so rare. It becomes us to insure their preservation, and to 

 make them profitable. In bestowing them here, he no doubt 

 expected a better use would be made of them here than else- 

 where. He was of too practical a turn to be satisfied with mere 

 storage. He anticipated that some one would take up the sub- 

 ject where he left it, make himself familiar with the collection, be 

 able to refer to the individual objects of it, and to answer such 

 inquiries as other investigators might seek to have settled from 

 it. What a glorious opportunity for one or more young men of 

 leisure and scientific tastes. Every thing which has been collected 

 in this country relating to the Algae and to Microscopic forms is 

 here embodied, together with all the books necessary for the 

 study and further pursuit of those branches. Whoever shall 

 make himself master of them must be the ultimate authority for 

 America, Such an opportunity for distinction even Ehrenberg 

 never had. Who shall be the man ? 



We would not close without one word of tribute to the memory 

 of our benefactor. We knew him to be a man of conscience, 

 amiable in his whole character, and of the highest order among 

 men of science. But the revision of his labors has tended to 

 raise him still higher in our admiration. He is an eminent 

 example of what may be accomplished by constant application, 

 and of the confidence which one may inspire in his fellowr-men 

 by unwavering truthfulness. In the very prime of life, with all 

 the necessary outlays and appliances for extensive and rapid 

 strides in knowledge, it seems too great a loss to be submissively 

 acquiesced in. We cannot refrain from quoting, as expressive 

 of our own estimate of his worth and position, from the letter of 

 one who could appreciate him justly. 



" I had seen that you are President of the Montreal meeting 

 (Association for Science) next year. I am sure every one acquaint- 

 ed with what you have done for the advancement of science, 

 American science and American scientific character, will say, that 



