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REMARKS OF ROBERT E. C. STEARNS, 



ON THE LATE 



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PROFESSOR JOSEPH HENRY, 



EFOEE THE 



California Academy at 



MAY a Oth, 1878; 



AND 



RESOLUTIONS OF THE ACADEMY, 

 June 17th, 1878. 



MEMBERS 'OF THE ACADEMY: Death, which hath all seasonal 

 for its own, has just stricken from the roll of the living, one of, 

 the illustrious names of the century, a name eminent in intel 

 lectual, especially scientific circles, throughout the world. I 

 refer, of course, to the late Prof. Joseph Henry, whose long 

 life service to his country and to mankind as an educator and 

 scientific investigator, and as the organizer and head of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, placed him naturally, and justly, at 

 the front, as the representative of science and scientific thought 

 and culture in America a position which he filled because of 

 his high attainments, and the conspicuous nobility of his char 

 acter, with exceeding credit to himself and to the manifest ad 

 vantage of science and his country. A man of great, yet un 

 assuming excellence, whosoever met him was at once impressed 

 most favorably, by his quiet yet cordial greeting, his dignified, 

 yet genial welcome. His native breadth of mind, his wide read 

 ing, correlated with and refined by an ample and generous 

 philosophy, impelled him, even early in life, to regard not 



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