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occurrence. It was an individuality to him. His keen eye 

 distinguished differences which others could not detect. To 

 his loved specimens he might always turn with relief when 

 sorely pressed by affliction or other misfortune. 



Prof. Shepard died, after a short illness, at Charles- 

 ton, May i, 1886. He left two children, a son and a 

 daughter. 



In its obituary the Charleston News said of him : " He 

 chose his profession well. A mind so analytic as his and so 

 keen in the perception of relations could not have failed to 

 see that the field in which he cast his literary fortunes was 

 one which offered an undying reward for those who made it a 

 successful arena of untiring and indomitable labour and 

 energy. . . . Prof. Shepard discovered more new species of 

 minerals which have attained permanent recognition than 

 perhaps any other scientist of the present day. He was a 

 member of many American and foreign societies, among 

 which are the Imperial Society of Natural Science of St. 

 Petersburg, the Royal Society of Gottingen, and the Society 

 of Natural Sciences of Vienna. He published a Treatise on 

 Mineralogy (1832 and 1835), a report on the Geology of Con- 

 necticut, and numerous scientific papers." Many reports on 

 mines made by him have been printed. 



He announced in 1835 his discovery of his first new species 

 of microlite, that of warwickite in 1838, that of danburite in 

 1839, an d he afterward described many other new minerals 

 until shortly before his death. His knowledge of minerals 

 was wonderfully extensive, " and he was hence ready," it has 

 been said, " with quick judgments as to new and old ; some- 

 times too quick but in any case imparting progress to Ameri- 

 can mineralogy." The honorary degree of M. D. was con- 

 ferred upon him by Dartmouth in 1836, and that of LL. D. 

 by Amherst in 1857. 



Prof. Shepard's son, Charles Upham, was born at New 

 Haven, October 4, 1842. He was graduated from Yale Col- 

 lege in 1863, and took the degree of M. D. at Gottingen in 

 1867. He succeeded to his father's professorship at Charles- 

 ton, and has been active in developing the phosphate and 

 other chemical industries of South Carolina. In 1887 he 

 presented the second cabinet of minerals that was formed 

 by his father, numbering more than ten thousand specimens, 



