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exchanges with Prof. Nuttall and other active cultivators of 

 mineralogy in the region. I soon after made a very successful 

 tour into Maine, where, at Paris, I was the fortunate discov- 

 erer of the most remarkable green and red tourmalines then 

 known. With some of these I made profitable exchanges 

 with the British Museum and other large collections. My 

 association in 1828 with Prof. Silliman as his assistant, and 

 afterward with the college as a lecturer on natural science for 

 many years, afforded me unusual facilities for the extension 

 of my cabinet. All the best localities of Connecticut were 

 frequently visited, specimens of rare interest secured, and the 

 means of supplying scientific correspondents abundantly ob- 

 tained. These objects were still further effected by journeys 

 into adjoining States and the Canadas, until 1835, when I be- 

 came Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of the 

 State of South Carolina, where a new and very ample field 

 was opened for the extension of my collections. From that 

 time to the present [1871], with the exception of the period 

 of the civil war, I have passed nearly the half of each year 

 in the South, and been engaged to a considerable extent in 

 scientific and mining explorations, which have resulted in 

 varied and rich contributions to my cabinet. These travels 

 have also embraced the Western or Mississippi States, attended 

 by similar results. But most of all have I gained by frequent 

 excursions to the Old World, having since 1839 twelve times 

 visited Europe, where my exchanges and purchases of speci- 

 mens have been conducted on a scale, I am led to believe, not 

 surpassed by any of my countrymen. Numbers, however, 

 have never been my aim in these acquisitions. I have rather 

 sought what was characteristic and instructive not, however, 

 to the neglect of the rare and beautiful." 



The foregoing relates to the mineralogical part of Prof. 

 Shepard's collections ; his geological cabinet was also impor- 

 tant, being especially remarkable for fossil remains. The 

 meteoric collection, begun in 1828, he stated to be the fourth 

 in extent and value known at the time of writing. 



As to the transfer of the combined cabinets to Amherst 

 College, Prof. Shepard continues : 



" The removal of these collections from New Haven to 

 Amherst, in 1847, was the result of an understanding entered 

 into between President Hitchcock and myself, that if the 



