128 MEMORIAL SKETCH. 



P. Carpenter, to Niagara, stopping on his way at the great 

 beds in which Eozoon had been discovered. The week's rest 

 which the travellers sought at the Falls was diversified by- 

 attendance at the meeting of the American Pharmaceutical 

 Conference, where he was called on for an address. It was 

 a foretaste of what befell him afterwards. Congresses and 

 conferences seemed to occur in town after town as he 

 arrived. On one occasion, the discovery of his name in 

 the hotel book suggested to some leading pastor an urgent 

 request that he would give a discourse from the pulpit 

 of his church. The most important of these speeches, 

 some of which were quite improDiptu, was delivered before 

 the National Congress of Unitarian and other Christian 

 Churches, at Saratoga, on " The Influence of Science on 

 the Progress of Religious Thought." The autumn weeks 

 were chiefly spent in Boston, where Dr. Carpenter poured 

 out the results of many years of labour and thought in two 

 courses of lectures, under the auspices of the Lowell Insti- 

 tute, on the " Physical Conditions of the Deep Sea," and 

 on " Human Automatism." The boundless hospitality of 

 his Boston friends, and the contact with so many men 

 eminent in science and literature, with whom he had been 

 acquainted only through books and correspondence, ren- 

 dered this visit a time of keen intellectual excitement, and 

 filled him with affectionate memories.* From his earliest 

 years he had been trained to interest in New England 

 Unitarianism, and he was familiar with the writings of its 

 leading representatives. When the centenary of Dr. Chan- 



* The impression which he left behind him was of the same warm-hearted 

 kind. He was ready to be pleased and to give pleasure everywhere. "There, 

 "at my house," afterwards wrote his old English friend, the Rev. Brooke 

 Herford, " the big-wigs having met him elsewhere, I gathered a crowd of 

 "young students and our poorer ministers, to have a chance to see him, and 

 " they have spoken to me many a time since of his beautiful cordiality, kind- 

 " ness, and simplicity, as he talked with them at first individually, ard then 

 "all sitting round and holding a general cross-fire of questioning." 



