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H., for two years. Entered Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., 

 and during two years of preparatory study, supported himself by 

 copying law papers. Entered the sophomore class at Williams 

 College in 1845, and was graduated, valedictorian, in 1848. 

 Taught school at Freehold, N. J., one } 7 ear ; principal of the High 

 School at Great Falls, N. H., in 1850, and subsequently was for 

 two years principal of East Windsor Academy, while pursuing 

 studies in the Theological Institute of Connecticut. Professor of 

 Chemistry, Botany, and Natural History, Williams College, 1853- 

 67 ; Professor of Chemistry and Natural History, Bowdoin Col- 

 lege, Me., 1859-66 ; Prof essor of Chemistry and Natural History, 

 Berkshire Medical College, three years, and lecturer in Chemis- 

 try, Mt. Holyoke Seminary, thirteen years. President of the 

 Mass. Agricultural College, 1866-67 ; President and Professor of 

 Metaphysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 1867-70, 

 and lecturer in Chemistry and Natural History, Western Reserve 

 College, Hudson, O. President of Williams College, 1872-81, 

 and of the Mass. Agricultural College, 1882-83. 



He conducted a scientific expedition to Newfoundland and 

 Labrador in 1855 ; to Florida in 1857, and to Greenland in 1861. 

 He visited Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Greenland and Iceland 

 for the purpose of studying geysers and volcanoes in 1859. Mem- 

 ber of the Mass. Senate, 1865-66 ; visited Utah and the mining- 

 regions of the Rocky Mountains, in 1870-72 ; was presidential 

 elector-at-large in 1876, and chairman of Republican State Con- 

 vention in 1880; engaged in the editorial supervision of ''The 

 Wealth of the United States " and " Public Service of New York," 

 1881-82. A portion of this time he was employed as mining 

 geologist in North Carolina and Dakota. He was a director in 

 several mills at Williamstown, in the Berkshire Life Insurance 

 Company, and in the North Adams Savings Bank. 



He was a member of the Royal Society of Northern Antiqua- 

 ries, Copenhagen, of the Mass. Historical Society, of the New 

 England Historic Genealogical Society, etc., etc. Was appointed 

 a member of the State Board of Agriculture by Gov. Andrew, 

 and after his return from the west, he was re-appointed in place 

 of Prof. Agassiz, deceased. Overseer of the Mass. Agricultural 

 College, 1874-78, and a trustee of Wellesley College. 



Delivered a course of lectures upon " The Relations of Natural 

 History" before the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1859, 



