136 MEMOIR OF THE LATE DR. HENRY. 
prehensive range of thought and knowledge, 
his proneness to general speculation in contra- 
distinction to detail, his ready command of the 
refinements of language, and the liveliness of 
his feelings and imagination rendered him a 
most instructive and engaging companion. To 
the young, and more especially to such as gave 
evidence of a taste for liberal studies, his manner 
was peculiarly kind and encouraging. He was 
most anxious to promote, as far as was in his 
power, their progress in knowledge, and on one 
occasion cheerfully dedicated a considerable 
portion of time to initiate some young friends 
in those more refined operations of analysis 
in which he was so consummately skilled. 
From this imperfect record of Dr. Henry’s 
original labours in science, and of his tastes in 
letters and in philosophy, a more faithful im- 
pression of his intellectual habitudes and endow- 
ments may perhaps be gathered, than from any 
general mental analysis. In science, it will 
have appeared, that his efforts are mainly cha- 
racterized by ingenuity and elegance in devising 
instruments and methods of research, and by 
extreme skill and precision in their employment. 
But in measuring the amount and importance 
