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LIBRARY 
NEW YORK 
BOTANICAL 
GARDEN 
EULOGY. 
Mr. PresipENT, 
AND GENTLEMEN OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY, 
Tue occasion, on which we are now assembled, is one of deep 
but melancholy interest. We meet to do honor to the memory of 
an eminent fellow-citizen and academic associate, who has recently 
closed a most useful life; which was filled up with faithfully dis- 
charging all the duties, even the most humble, that belonged to him 
as a member of the community immediately around him, while his 
leisure hours were employed in the highest department of science, 
in making those great acquisitions which have shed an unfading 
lustre on his country among distant nations. 
It is painful to realize, — indeed, who among us can feel it to be a 
reality ?— that, but a few weeks have gone by, since our illustrious 
President occupied that seat, as the head of our association, in the 
full exercise of those intellectual and moral powers, whose con- 
stant action, though not always observed, was yet felt through 
every circle of society in which he moved. How saddening is the 
reflection, that those rare endowments now lie prostrate and power- 
less! that the funeral rites, not long since conducted in that simple 
and unostentatious manner, which was in harmony with his whole 
life, have separated us from him for ever ! 
The death of this distinguished man has been felt by all his 
countrymen ; and the event was no sooner known, than a spon- 
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