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land Association for the Advancement of Literature and Science, 
and the intelligence of whose sudden decease, at the comparatively 
early age of thirty-seven years, has been received by each member 
of your Committee with feelings of deep sorrow. The Committee 
feels assured that, in putting on permanent record the expression 
of such sorrow, it is giving but an inadequate interpretation to the 
genuine feeling of all the members of this Association. We have, 
indeed, much reason to deplore the sad event. Our late County 
Secretary embodied in himself, in no small measure, most of those 
purely personal and mental qualities which are so essential to the 
ultimate success of a man who, earnestly, and with single intent, 
works for the social and intellectual development of his feliow-men. 
Possessed of powers of social attraction, which gained him a circle 
of disinterested friendships wherever he went, and gifted with more 
than an average share of intellectual ability, no less than with fine 
practical faculties of organization, he reduced to method and 
distinctness every scheme on which he brought to bear the force 
of his clear intellect. The day has almost gone past, when it needs 
to be pointed out that, to him, was due the idea of uniting the 
isolated County Associations into one representative whole; and 
that to him, likewise, were chiefly due the business energy and 
tact which moulded that idea to a practical and successful issue. 
It may be truly said, that his praises are in the mouth of all the 
Associations ; and that, perhaps, the most fitting monument which 
could be erected to his memory, he has himself built up with his 
own hands, to be a centre of broad human culture and beneficent 
influences. His love for science was scarcely excelled by the 
earnest enthusiasm with which he strove, both by means of speech 
and the press, to make its truths known. No lectures in White- 
haven were more looked forward to with interest, or more largely 
attended, than his; and the causes of his popularity are not far 
to seek. The true secret of his powers as a lecturer, lay in the 
thorough knowledge of his subject which he invariably possessed, 
combined with a gift which is equally indispensable to success— 
that gift, namely, of clear, logical, incisive exposition, which 
thorough mastery alone commands, and which evolves from the 
mass of material under manipulation, a perfectly simple, intelligible, 
and coherent whole, without at the same time sacrificing depth of 
insight, or the necessary fulness of fact. Heis gone from us in 
