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deeply interested in its welfare. Indeed, when we 

 consider how much he gave up in rejecting the large 

 salaries which were offered elsewhere, and how much 

 he expended from his own resources in the five years of 

 his unpaid labors in the institution, amounting of course 

 to many thousand dollars ; and his generous bequest, 

 made within a few hours of his death, of all the 

 apparatus of the laboratory, together with the books 

 and other articles (valued at more than $2000), we 

 place him prominently among those benefactors who, 

 besides their services, their scientific and literary reputa- 

 tion, and their lives, have given most generous donations 

 to the college. 



But his instruction in the laboratory was only a small 

 part of his labors. His publications were numerous, 

 and of permanent value. He was a frequent writer for 

 agricultural journals. He had been a more or less fre- 

 quent writer for the Albany Cultivator from 1844, but in 

 1850 he commenced a new series of letters, which, the 

 editor says, constitutes " one of the chief attractions of 

 the Cultivator." He also delivered numerous addresses 

 before agricultural societies, in different parts of the 

 country. Eight or nine of these have been published. 

 His last public effort was the introductory to the course 

 of lectures," at the opening of the University of Albany, 

 N. Y., in 1851. All these are written with perspicuity, 



