From the Bostjn Cultivator. 



JOHN PITKIN NORTON. 



In common with all true friends of improvement, we 

 mourn the death of this talented and estimable man. 

 We express no feigned regret — we feel that the whole 

 country has suffered loss. This is not the occasion for 

 his eulogy, were we able to do justice to his character: 

 but we can not refrain from some tribute, however 

 feeble, to the memory of one, whose brief career has 

 been so useful, and whose prospects, viewed in reference 

 to the benefits he might have conferred on his fellow 

 men, were so full of hope. 



Professor Norton was no ordinary man; he was one 

 in whom the " elements seemed so blended," that he 

 commanded universal respect. Though he had only 

 reached the age of thirty years, he had wrought for 

 himself a position and reputation among the distin- 

 guished men of the age. His labors were principally 

 directed to the applications of science to agriculture, 

 and without any invidious motive, we may safely say 

 that to no man is this country more deeply indebted 

 than to him, for the valuable truths which have been 



