118 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



a few days, by the death of a, younger colleague, 

 Mr. John P. Norton, Professor of Agricultural Chem- 

 istry. Of him, Professor Silliman writes : 



Alas ! Death took the oldest, save one, of the veteran * 

 officers of Yale College, and now the youngest has been 

 called away. Thus many hopes are blasted, all hopes, 

 indeed, connected with the deceased, except the most im- 

 portant of all, that hope which assures us that it is well 

 with our lamented young friend. My first thoughts regard- 

 ing him are expressed in a printed obituary, and I hope 

 that a memoir of him will be prepared by a literary friend. 

 There are abundant materials, and his character was so 

 beautiful, that it would form an excellent model for imi- 

 tation. 



Professor Silliman accompanies his mention of 

 ih" death of Daniel Webster with an interesting 

 account of his acquaintance with that distinguished 

 man. 



This great man died at his country-place at Marshfield, 

 I My mouth County, Mass., on Sabbath morning, October 24, 



at twenty-two minutes before three o'clock, A.M. 



We shall, of course, have his biography, which 



will. I trust, embody many passages of his private life, and 

 many of his colloquial remarks. At Washington, early in 



h- gave me and my son a private document to serve 



us in l.m<>].<-, if needed, and President Fillmore did the 



I met him, February, 1851, at the levee of the 



lent; but I did not advance; he came to meet me, 

 and. with ;rc:it cordiality of manner, expressed his esteem 

 and re-anl. and quoted from my English travels an expres- 



-\hich I had used respecting Castlereagh, namely, that 



ing him among other great men in Parliament, Pitt, 



Fox, Sheridan, and others, I said of Castlereagh, that, 



