j^yj MEMOIR. 
an acquaintance with almost every man who had 
any pretensions to science ; and he did much to 
encourage them, and to bring them in contact 
with each other. At the same time, his eye was 
always open, and on the watch for any thing that 
might he of importance to the Museum or to the 
Journal of the Natural History Society. 
While a member of the Legislature, in 1836-7, 
he used his endeavors to sustain the State Geo- 
logical Survey, then in process by Prof. Hitch- 
cock, and was principally instrumental in having 
attached to it the Commission for the Zoological 
Survey also, the results of which have been so 
important. He also secured for the Natural His- 
tory Society an appropriation from the Legisla- 
ture, which, small as it was, was infinitely import- 
ant at that time. 
To the Natural History Society, he was, at the 
same time, the patron, the fellow-laborer, the Pre- 
sident. He stood with it, and yet with the world, 
a link to bring them in contact. Having been 
instrumental in its organization, having watched 
and fostered it through its days of feebleness and 
small things, and having passed through its vari- 
ous offices till he had become its head, — his 
name, his fame, his labors, and his fortune were 
