JOSEPH HENRY, LL.D. 



ON Thursday evening, January 16, 1879, a 

 large company gathered in the hall of the 

 House of Representatives at "Washington. They 

 came to honor the memory of one of our greatest 

 in science, since Franklin, Joseph Henry, the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Ad- 

 dresses were made by the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, 

 Professor Asa Gray, a most distinguished scientist, 

 the Hon. James A. Garfield, General W. T. Sher- 

 man, the Hon. S. S. Cox, and others. 



Not alone at the Capitol were memorial services 

 held for Professor Henry. Before the United 

 States National Academy of Sciences, before the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, before the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington, of all these he had been president, be- 

 fore the College of New Jersey at Princeton, where 

 he was Professor of Natural Philosophy for four- 

 teen years, before the Albany Institute, of which 

 he was one of the original members, and before 

 various other societies in which he had been a lead- 

 ing spirit, heartfelt testimony was given to Amer- 

 ica's loss in the death of a great scholar and a good 

 man. 



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