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From ilie New Haven Journal and Courier. 



PROF. JOHN PITKIN NORTON.* 



This much lamented man died of a rapid decline, 

 Sunday, Sept. 5th, at U o'clock p. m., at the house of 

 his father, John T. Norton, Esq., in Farmington. Prof. 

 Norton was appointed, a few years since, by the corpo- 

 ration of Yale College, to a new professorship, that of 

 Chemistry applied to agriculture and the phenomena of 

 vegetable and animal life. 



At two different periods, he passed nearly three years 

 in Europe, under eminent professors, and was diligently 

 engaged in preparing himself for the duties of his 

 appointment. 



Returning in 1847, he began his courses of both theo- 

 retical and experimental instruction. A respectable 

 class of diligent and interested pupils was soon gathered 

 around him, and has been continued and increased in 

 all the successive years. 



* From the pen of Prof. Silliman, Sen. 



