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lege, conferred on his country a very important benefit. From 1810, 
11 and 12, during which years it was opened and arranged, to 1825, 
he liberally gave the use of it to the institution and the public, re- 
ceiving, as his only compensation, the satisfaction of observing the 
great amount of good which was thus effected. In 1825, this cabi- 
net was purchased for Yale College, for twenty thousand dollars: 
half of this sum was contributed by citizens of New Haven, inclu- 
ding one thousand five hundred dollars given by the permanent offi- 
cers of the College ; about three thousand dollars were pledged in 
New York, seven hundred in South Carolina,* five hundred, each, 
by two individuals in Connecticut,t and a few hundreds more in 
other places. 
The writer of this notice had extensive opportunities of witness- 
ing the liberal spirit with which Col. Gibbs promoted the interests of 
science. While he was conferring important benefits, his manners 
were mild, amiable and unassuming. 
It is not improper to mention, that Col. Gibbs was ial, person 
who first suggested to the Editor the project of this Journal, and he 
urged the topic with so much zeal and with such cogent arguments, 
as prevailed to induce the effort in a case then viewed as of very 
dubious success.t The subject was thus started in November, 1817; 
proposals for the Journal were issued in January, 1818, and the first 
No. appeared in July of that year. 
For many years previous to his death, Col. Gibbs, occupied with 
rural cares, retired into the bosom of his family, in his beautiful 
abode at Hurlgate Ferry. The few papers which he published in 
Dr. Bruce’s Journal, and in the American Journal, only cause us to 
regret that he did not publish more. 
His talents were decidedly of a superior order; his knowledge 
was extensive and various; his style of writing was simple, concise 
and comprehensive, and his original observations were judicious and 
exact. 
2. Dr. William Meade died at Newburgh, in the state of New 
York, on the 29th of August. This gentleman, a native of Ireland, 
* Through the exertions of Thomas S. Grimké, Esq. 
t One of whom was the late — James Hillhouse. 
$ It was on an accidental on board the Fulton steam-boat, in Long Island 
Sound, a Col. Gibbs suggested nas effort. Dr. Bruce’s Journal of Mineralogy 
some years suspended, and the alarming state of his health forbade the 
hope that ie work would be revived. 
