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identified with the Society ; and in its social rela- 
tions he was in a position to render services which 
no survivor has the power of rendering. He had 
hoped that by his visit to Europe he should he 
enabled to form acquaintances with scientific men, 
and their modes and facilities for investigation ; 
to learn the best arrangement for a cabinet, and 
the best modes of preserving objects ; to negotiate 
exchanges, and make large additions to his li- 
brary; by which his future connection with the 
Society, especially at the juncture when plans 
for the permanent arrangement and preservation 
of the Cabinet were likely to be needed, might 
become of the greatest possible advantage. 
Nor was he less qualified, or less disposed, to 
promote the interests of art among us. Ill as he 
was in Europe, he never lost sight of the two 
institutions which he had determined to foster ; 
and he was daily seeking to obtain collections 
for the one, and rare books and paintings for the 
other. Several arrangements with this view had 
been entered into, which were interrupted by his 
illness, and more or less defeated by his death. 
It is due both to him and to the history of 
American Art to record, that with a view to the 
encouragement of American Artists, he had pro- 
