THE THREE SECRETARIES 



By George Brown Goode 



JOSEPH HENRY 



I. 



j^HE early history of American science is very 

 closely connected with the life of Professor 



m Henry. Born with the present century, he 

 participated in the early movements for the 

 ^'Sz^^ ^^^w^ g^ national organization of science. In his later 

 years he was an acknowledged leader in the work of main- 

 taining and extending these, in accordance with the tenden- 

 cies of modern thouo-ht. 



Between 1827 — when he entered the little company of 

 American investigators, at that time few in number, and for 

 the most part young and inexperienced — and 1878, when he 

 died, a recognized leader of a numerous and well-organized 

 army of trained men, there intervened a full half century, and 

 one which was of great significance in the history of the 

 Western continents, since it was peculiarly a formative 

 period for all those interests upon which the moral and 

 intellectual welfare of our people depends. 



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