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his name has been prominent in connection with almost every good 
work. His influence has been felt in all directions. He was an effec- 
tive worker in the Evangelical Alliance, the American and Foreign 
Christian Union, the Society for the Prevention of Crime, and the 
New York Academy of Sciences. 
In 1862, Columbia College conferred on him the degree of S.T.D., 
and, in 1869, the Regents of the University of the State of New York 
bestowed on him the degree of L.H.D. 
Prof. MARTIN’s married life lasted for forty-one years, and has been 
rightly described as well-nigh ideal. Mrs. MARTIN’S death, in April, 
1883, was a terrible blow; but her husband was not of those who sor- 
row without hope, and his patience while thus stricken was a proof of 
his Christian fortitude. The separation, however, was short, for on 
December 26, 1883, he died of acute bronchitis, dying, as he had 
lived, full of faithful, cheerful trust in his God, whom, with singleness 
of heart, he had served for full fifty years. The only issue of the mar- 
riage was one son, who is still with us, and whose labors in the ser- 
vice of the Academy are second in importance only to those of his 
father. 
Professor MARTIN was a faithful member of this Academy ; his ser- 
vices were equally effective and unostentatious. It is no exaggeration 
to say that the Academy owes very much of its prosperity to his exer- 
tions. His quick and generous recognition of merit in the younger 
members—his kindly words of encouragement, on occasions when 
keen, and perhaps deserved, criticism was chilling hope, will not be 
forgotten by some whom he thus kept in the way of study. 
Professor MARTIN’S acquirements were remarkable. He began his 
studies in science when most of the branches, now so important, were 
in their infancy. -With rare power he seized the salient points in each 
subject, and, with careful, systematic study, he kept himself well 
abreast with the advances of the succeeding thirty years. He was 
not an expert in zoology, or geology, or mineralogy, or molecular 
physics ; but he was so well grounded in the general principles of each 
that no geologist, or zoologist, or mineralogist ever conversed with 
him for an hour without gaining some new conception, without feeling 
broadened, without feeling that he had talked with one who had 
reached the higher planes of philosophy. This breadth of informa- 
tion gave him wonderful power as an instructor in metaphysics—as an 
instructor in any branch. He was encyclopedic himself; he made his 
students so also. Other instructors taught their specialties, but Pro- 
fessor MARTIN, in addition to his own work, taught the student to 
gather all together, to assort the information, and to put away every 
fact in its own place along with those related to it. So, the thoughtful 
