MINUTE OF THE DOCTOR'S CLUB OF PROVIDENCE. 



In /Dem or tarn. 



ELI WHITNEY BLAKE. 



Through the death of Professor Eli Whitney 

 Blake the Doctor's Club of Providence, for the first 

 time in its history of over twenty years, has been 

 called to mourn for the decease of a brother member. 

 The members of the club assembled in regular meet- 

 ing to-day desire hereby to express their love for 

 their departed brother, and their deep sense of loss 

 and bereavement. 



He was a man illumined and guided by a gra- 

 cious spirit from his birth. His inborn and inherited 

 gifts were quickened and enlarged by generous culture. 

 He was a master in his chosen field of science, and 

 in other fields his attainments were large. His great 

 learning he used without stint for the good of others, 



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