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hope that you may be spared many years, and realize all 

 your hopes, I am, dear sir, with great respect, 

 Your friend and obedient servant, 



Jos. E. SHEFFIELD. 

 PROFESSOR SILLIMAN. 



Professor Silliman was also permitted to receive 

 from another munificent merchant an announcement 

 of his intention liberally to endow the sciences of 

 chemistry and geology in the undergraduate depart 

 ment of the College. He had the full assurance that 

 the work of his life would be carried forward here 

 after on an expanded scale. 



Partly on account of the attention he was giving 

 to the manuscript works relating to himself and his 

 family, which were written primarily for the entertain 

 ment and benefit of his children, and at their request, 

 the records in Professor Silliman's Diary become 

 much less frequent. They mostly consist of notices 

 in connection with the decease of friends, and reflec 

 tions of a religious nature. Some extracts, however, 

 written druring the last five years of his life, are sub 

 joined. 



August, 1859. The Scientific Association at Springfield. 

 Being the oldest member of the Association present, 

 and having presided at the first meeting of the Geological 

 Association, April 5, 1841, my attendance on the present 

 occasion was complimented at its last meeting by the fol 

 lowing resolution, moved by Professor Bache : " Resolved, 

 that this Association express its gratification at the pres 

 ence of our octogenarian friend at our meetings, and we 

 ^ hope that we may often meet him as he now is, with his 

 eye undimmed and his natural force unabated." Rev. Mr. 

 Buckingham, who was present, said that it was moved with 



