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ural History, if that term be regarded as including Zoology and 

 Botany, never entered into his field of special study. Mineralogy 

 and Geology were added to Chemistry for a time, and Pharmacy 

 was specified in the catalogues of the Medical School. These 

 three men, very different in their intellectual qualities, supple- 

 mented the instruction of each other. Silliman was the attractive 

 lecturer, the college orator, the man who came to the front on all 

 academic occasions. Kingsley was the retired scholar, learned, 

 accurate, ready, masterly as a critic, thorough as a teacher. Day, 

 a wise and judicious administrator, in addition to the duties then 

 commonly assigned to a college president, gave instruction in 

 Moral Philosophy. 



Discriminating appreciations of these three men, with charac- 

 teristic stories, are given in the Memories of Yale Life and Men, by 

 the second President Dwight. He quotes from President Woolsey 

 the saying that Silliman, among all the men who lived in New 

 Haven during the century, was the most finished gentleman, not 

 only in external demeanor, but in his character and soul. Dwight 

 says that 



"His language and style, his wonderful facility of expression 

 and clearness of statement, and the grace and force of the presen- 

 tation of his thought were admirably fitted to arrest and hold the 

 attention of his hearers at all times, as well as to impress upon their 

 memory the facts and truths which he brought before them." 



Then he adds this amusing story, illustrating the genuine kindli- 

 ness of the man: 



"I well remember one illustrative case, respecting which there 

 had been long-continued deliberation, with the differences of 

 views that were frequently manifest, and the minds of some of the 

 gentlemen were convinced that disciplinary measures were essen- 

 tial. The kindly professor was requested to give the first vote in 

 the decision. He took the College Catalogue which was lying on 

 the table near him, and opening it he said, 'What is the student's 

 name, Mr. President?' 'Jones,' the President replied. 'Ah,' said 

 he, after turning over the pages somewhat carefully, ' Jones of the 

 Junior Class?' 'Yes,' was the reply. 'I notice that he is from 

 Baltimore,' the professor answered; 'when I was lecturing in that 



