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never lost his interest in them. To his raind, nurtured as it had 

 become by their study, questions of important moment depended 

 upon their full elucidation, and certainly he exhibited an untiring 

 devotion in his labors towards the accomplishment of this end. 



We all know that he has for some time been engaged in the 

 preparation of a work on the footjjrints of the Connecticut valley, 

 now under publication by the Smithsonian Institution ; and all are 

 undoubtedly aware, that by a process of his own invention, he 

 was able to lithograph and photograph them, so as to produce 

 illustrations of singular fidelity, — the color, even, of the stone in 

 which they occur being exactly represented. How far he had 

 progressed towards the completion of the text for this work is not 

 yet known to us. The plates, I have the satisfaction of announc- 

 ing, are all finished. 



Dr. Deane always felt a strong interest in our Society, and he 

 was anxious that our cabinet should possess a full suite of the 

 impressions. To him your committee were much indebted for 

 advice and assistance in procuring such as adorn your cabinet. It 

 is a satisfaction now to know, that he himself felt grateful to the 

 Society for the readiness with which at all times, through your 

 curator, it loaned him such specimens as were needed for the illus- 

 tration of his work. These were always unhesitatingly placed at 

 his disposal. 



Dr. Deane was quiet and unobtrusive in his manners, and 

 always presented his observations with singular modesty. It is 

 indeed painful to reflect, that his manly form will never more 

 come into our presence, or his instructive speech greet our hear- 

 ing. He died on the night of the 8th of June, from typhoid fever, 

 being about 57 years of age. 



It is always a pleasure to know, that those whom we have 

 respected for scientific attainments, wei^e loved and honored in 

 private life for their virtues. This pleasure we can fully enjoy in 

 the case of our lamented associate. I cannot, perhaps, better 

 close these remarks, than by quoting the language of the friend 

 in Greenfield who kindly furnished me with some of the facts 

 which I have mentioned. He says : " To the community here, 

 his death is a loss not easily supplied. To many families, it is 

 only second to that of an immediate member. We mourn not 

 only the loss of our physician, and of a useful fellow-citizen, but 



