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eral hours working at the microscope. They were delightful 

 hours, for I enjoyed them immensely, and although he was 

 weighted down by the disease which terminated his life soon 

 after, he could not refrain, although warned to do so, from 

 entering enthusiastically into the work in hand. He then gave 

 me a slide from West Point of Meridion circidarc, and one of 

 Radiolaria from Barbadoes. He also gave me some of the 

 celebrated "Bermuda tripoli," and some of the original 

 deposit of fresh water Bacillaria from West Point. He like- 

 wise presented me with a copy of his " Notes of Microscopic 

 Forms Found in the Soundings of the Sea of Kamtschatka," 

 then published in the Amc7'ican Journal of Science and Arts, 

 Volume XXII, for 1856, page i. This has a plate with 

 figures of the various forms found. 



