THE THREE SECRETARIES 



BY GEORGE BROWN GOODE 



JOSEPH HENRY 

 i. 



early history of American science is very 

 closely connected with the life of Professor 

 Henry. Born with the present century, he 

 participated in the early movements for the 

 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 thought. 



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. 



