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an unpretentious yet strong desire to accomplish a useful career. 

 His generosity and charity scarce knew bounds, while in his 

 public and private life his frank and sympathetic nature and 

 unassuming yet dignified demeanor won the esteem of all with 

 whom he came in contact. 



This seems to me, having known him all my life, an estimate 

 at once terse and just. 



Like Dr. G. A. Mantell, the author of the first works on Geo- 

 logy, Prof. Worthen was able to obtain, "his most important 

 discoveries sprang out of the researches he never ceased to pur- 

 sue among his favorite group of rocks the Lower Carbonifer- 

 ous. His location at an early period of his professional career, 

 was exceedingly favorable for these inquiries, and as stated by 

 Prof. Ulrich he was assuredly the original demonstrator of the 

 true relations of its principal divisions. With the Lower Car- 

 boniferous series also are connected his chief and very memor- 

 able palaiontological discoveries, out of that formation he pro- 

 cured those wonderful fish remains so highly regarded by Prof. 

 Agassiz as well as the evidences of Terrestrial Flora there im- 

 bedded as announced in his paper read before the 13th meeting 

 of the American Association for the advancement of science. 



I feel that I cannot close this biographical notice of Prof. 

 Worthen without calling attention to characteristics that, to my 

 mind, rendered him a brother indeed to that great naturalist 

 he so much admired and loved, Prof. Agassiz. He had the same 

 intense love of natural science with that great teacher. Like 

 him, he could not exist without collecting a museum. He had 

 the same remarkable powers of instant observation. Like him, 

 he gathered and brought home from the formations to which 

 he devoted his life work a greater variety and collection of fossil 

 remains than have ever before or since been collected by one in- 

 dividual. He had the same disinterestedness, the same conse- 

 cration to science, the same readiness to oblige even the hum- 

 blest and most modest, the same superiority to self-interest, the 

 same sincerity and absence of all pretension, and the same en- 

 thusiasm in all that was noble. As with Agassiz, so with 

 Worthen, never was a life more richly filled with study, work 

 and thought. Like Agassiz, Worthen had no time to make 

 monev. 



