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drift of science, its inventions and institutions, is demo- 

 cratic." 



Besides the works already mentioned, Prof. Olmsted pub- 

 lished many articles of a scientific or literary character in the 

 leading periodicals of the day contributing thus to the Ameri- 

 can Journal of Science, The Transactions of the American As- 

 sociation, The Smithsonian Contributions, The Christian Spec- 

 tator, and The New-Englander. He was especially fond of bio- 

 graphical composition, and his memoirs of Dr. Dwight, Sir 

 Humphry Davy, Governor Treadwell, Eli Whitney, and William 

 C. Redfield are mentioned by Prof. Silliman as favourable ex- 

 ^amples. 



