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rail and there humbly kneeling, made his solemn abjuration 
of Protestantism, and received conditional baptism at the 
hands of the Archbishop. 
Fourteen years later, and they had been the years of a 
serene and happy evening of life, on the 21st of November, 
1860, this most learned, gifted, amiable and pious gentle- 
man, almost a prince among American scientists of his time, 
resigned his life in peace, at the age of seventy-six. 
