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"At any time we should hear of the death of such a man -with 

 deep regret and grief, and these feelings are increased in the 

 present case, when we remember that he has been called from the 

 field of his usefulness when the great work of his most useful life 

 has been but partly done. But he has been taken, and we may 

 not murmur at the inscrutable decree by which that work has 

 been arrested, just as it was on the eve of completion. New 

 England may have more brilliant and more popular illustrators 

 of her natural science, but one more thorough or more devoted 

 we have never known ; nor one who once known has been more 

 honored and esteemed by Naturalists, or beloved .by friends, than 

 the late Professor Zadock Thompson." 



A correspondent of the " Gospel Messenger" a brother cler- 

 gyman of the Diocese of Vermont, who was present at the fu- 

 neral together with the Rev. Dr. Hicks, of Rutland, and the 

 Rev. W. T. Webbe. of Middlebury, thus eloquently alludes to 

 the funeral of the deceased which was holden in St. Paul's Church, 

 and to certain characteristics of the lamented Professor : 



" A very large congregation assembled at the Church to pay 

 the last tribute of respect to the deceased ; and the closing of the 

 stores, shops and offices, in the midst of a very busy day, was a 

 most appropriate and affecting testimony of the estimation in 

 which he was held where his moral worth and scientific character 

 were best known. 



"Owing to a disease, of the heart which terminated his life, he 

 was long since incapacitated for the pastoral office, and from 

 purchasing that l good degree ' to which the diaconate would have 

 entitled him, and gave himself up to those- scientific investigations 

 and employments with whose successful and happy results very 

 many beyond his native State are familiar. 



"A very appropriate discourse was delivered at the Church by 

 Dr. Hicks, in which though little was said of the dead, he was 

 briefly and very happily referred to as a man of rare intellectual 

 endowments, who was above all praise in ability and accuracy of 

 scientific research-, and who, perhaps, an all-wise Providence di- 

 rected into such channels, that he might be a witness to their 

 compatibility with divine revelation. 



" To his eyes, nature and revelation were pages written by the 

 same Omnipotent finger, and never disagreeing- ; and no man 



