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both capacities, as well as by the unaffected modesty, kindness, 

 and uniform courtesy of his deportment toward all men. In 

 the various relations and stations of life, public and private, 

 he was without reproach and above suspicion. Beloved, 

 trusted, honoured, venerated by all those most intimately con- 

 nected or associated with him, he could not make an enemy 

 he had none." 



The last official act of Dr. Lindsley before retiring from 

 the presidency of the university was to pronounce a dis- 

 course on the life and character of Troost, from which many 

 of the facts in this account are derived. 



A son of President Lindsley, Prof. J. Berrien Lindsley, M. D., 

 who was Dr. Troost's favourite and most trusted pupil, thus 

 writes of him : " The doctor was, in all respects, of most lov- 

 able character. From my early boyhood until his death I 

 knew him intimately, and admired and revered him. He was 

 universally esteemed. From the University of Nashville he 

 received throughout his long professional career one thousand 

 dollars per annum for three lectures weekly to the senior class; 

 from the State five hundred, and, for a short period, one thou- 

 sand dollars per annum for three months' geological explora- 

 tions. He lived very frugally and sent large sums to Europe 

 for rare and choice mineral specimens. He dealt largely with 

 Hewland, of London, and with Krautz, of Bonn. The latter 

 told me, in 1852, that Dr. Troost was one of his most liberal 

 customers." 



In a letter to President Lindsley, replying to one which had 

 informed him of Troost's death, Dr. Charles T. Jackson, of 

 Boston, wrote : " It was my good fortune to become somewhat 

 intimately acquainted with Dr. Troost in 1825, while travelling 

 in company with him and the late distinguished geologists and 

 naturalists, Maclure, Say, and Lesueur, during their scientific 

 excursions through the counties of Sussex, N. J., and Orange, 

 N. Y., and I was struck with the unaffected simplicity of his 

 manners, and his uniform kindness and courtesy, as well as 

 his prompt and scientific recognition of the minerals and 

 rocks which it was our object to examine. He was an accu- 

 rate and scientific mineralogist, and very correct crystallogra- 

 pher, remembering with the most remarkable fidelity the exact 

 angles of known crystals of minerals, so that he readily distin- 

 guished rare and remarkable forms." 



