JAMES HENRY COFFIN. 457 



ander Woeikof, former secretary of the meteorological commit- 

 tee of the Imperial Geographical Society of Russia, and the 

 work was issued in 1876 as the twentieth volume of the Smith- 

 sonian Contributions to Knowledge. 



In reviewing what may be called the extra labours of Prof. 

 Coffin, we can not refrain from endeavouring to impress upon 

 the mind of the general public that men of his character, who 

 do honour to humanity, ought not to be suffered to expend 

 their energies in the drilling of youth in the mere elements of 

 knowledge, and with a compensation not more than sufficient 

 to secure the necessaries of life ; that they should be conse- 

 crated as officiating priests in the temple of knowledge, be fur- 

 nished with all the appliances and assistance necessary to the 

 accomplishment of their objects, namely, the extension of the 

 bounds of human thought and of human power. 



