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the Phillips Academy, Andover. In October, 1830, he en- 

 tered Yale College, but removed to Amherst College, and 

 there joined the Sophomore Class in September, 1831, In 

 1831 he graduated at Amherst with the highest honors. 

 Shortly afterwards he entered the Theological Seminary at 

 Andover, but in June, 1836, abandoned his Theological 

 studies to assist Professor Hitchcock in a geological survey of 

 the State of New York. The magnitude of the undertakino-, 

 and especially imperfect health, soon led Professor Hitchcock 

 to abandon the work, and Adams, although strongly urged to 

 do so, was unwilling to assume the lead in labors given up by 

 one so much older and more experienced in science. Eeturn- 

 ing to Amherst, he spent several weeks in preparing a course 

 of lectures on Geology, which he . delivered in Bradford 

 Academy, in September, 1836. In October of that year he 

 became a Tutor in Amherst College, and in the following 

 Spring delivered another course of lectures on Geology in 

 Bradford Academy. 



C. B. Adams was invited, in the Autumn of 1837, to accept 

 the Professorship of Chemistry and Natural History in 

 Marion College, at Marion, Missouri, and went there to learn 

 the condition of the Institution before deciding to accept the 

 proffered appointment. The College was in its infancy, with 

 very few students, and its financial affairs were in an unsettled 

 state. The prospect was discouraging, and after a few months 

 of hard labor, Adams returned to his home in Boston. Sub- 

 sequent events proved the prudence of his decision, — Marion 

 College was given up, its founders being unable successfully to 

 establish it. 



In September, 1838, C. B. Adams accepted the appointment 

 of Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in Middlebury 

 College, Middlebury, Vermont. Indefatigable in his exer- 

 tions, ever ready to aid and encourage the students, he be- 

 came a very popular teacher, and was held in the highest 

 estimation by the Trustees and the Faculty, who contributed 

 every thing in their power to render his position happy and 

 desirable. 



In February, 1839, Professor Adams married Mary, 

 daughter of the Rev. Sylvester Holmes, of New Bedford. He 

 visited the Island of Jamaica, West Indies, in the Winter of 

 1843-44. The Professor's health, as well as that of his family, 

 eventually suffered from the severity of the climate of Ver- 

 mont, and a change becoming absolutely necessary, he, with 

 much regret, resigned his Professorship in August, 1847. He 

 removed from Middlebury to Amherst, and immediately com- 

 menced his labors in the College there as Professor of Zoology 

 and Astronomy, — labors which terminated only with his death, 

 in 1853. 



