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and Observations on the Potato Disease, published in 

 the Journal of Science, vol. ii, 281; iv, 70; On the 

 Proteine Bodies of Peas and Almonds, published in 

 the same Journal, vol. v, 22 ; On the Value of Soil 

 Analysis, and the points to which special attention 

 should be directed, read before the American Association 

 at Albany, August, 1851, and published in their proceed- 

 ings. In this paper, he was aided by William J. Craw, 

 first assistant in his laboratory. This was his last con- 

 tribution to science, and the elevated views which it 

 contains of the high office of the scientific man, in 

 relation to agriculture, only make more manifest the loss 

 science has suffered in his death. 



But we draw nigh the closing scene. The session of 

 1851 was the most prosperous one his school had en- 

 joyed, and it was now made certain that a large 

 chemical school would grow up under his auspices. At 

 the same time, he took a deep interest in the projected 

 University of Albany, in which agricultural chemistry 

 was to have a prominent place, and agreed to deliver a 

 course of lectures in that city, on that subject. Every 

 thing was now prosperous with him. Useful, honored 

 and beloved, he enjoyed the present, and saw belbre him 

 an equally honorable and useful future. But, alas! his 

 days were numbered, and he was approaching the grave. 

 On his first journey to Albany, he spit a little blood in 



