N. Y., supposed to be Warwickite, but which I have decided 

 to be a new species, and have named Enceladite. The results- 

 will be published in the American Journal for May, when I 

 shall send you a copy. I am now engaged in an examination 

 of our Norwich minerals, the Edwardsite and Monazite. 

 Prof. Shepard's researches did not entirely settle the question 

 relative to its composition, or identity with the Kussian 

 Monazite. I have also been assisting Mr. Silliman in the 

 preparation of an elementary chemistry, which he is com- 

 piling for the use of schools. It is but partly finished, and I 

 shall recommence the work in a day or two." 



During 1845, 1846 and 1847, while a student at Yale, he- 

 contributed to Silliman's Journal no less than eighteen arti- 

 cles and notes long and short ; and wrote the organic sections 

 for Silliman's First Principles of Chemistry. Prof. Silliman 

 thus acknowledges his debt in the Preface to the first edition, 

 published in December, 1846 : " The author takes pleasure 

 in acknowledging the important aid derived in this portion 

 of the work from his friend and professional assistant, M r. 

 Thomas Sterry Hunt, whose familiarity with the philosophy 

 and details of chemistry will not fail to make him one of its 

 ablest followers. The labor of compiling the organic chem- 

 istry has fallen almost solely upon him." 



Hunt's connection with the Yale College analytical labora- 

 tory was short. It terminated by his appointment as chemist 

 and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada in the 

 autumn of 1846, after refusing an offer from Edinbro', of 

 assistant to Prof. Johnston, of agricultural chemistry fame, 

 and declining the post of chemist on Prof. C. B. Adams' 

 Geological Survey of Vermont. The elder Silliman, in urg- 

 ing his appointment on the Governor-General of Canada, Lord 

 Cathcart, says: " I cannot entertain a doubt that he (Hunt) 

 will, if appointed to the post named within, fully justify the 

 strong recommendations of his friends." Prof. Silliman, Jr., 

 says : ' * His youth might be an objection to his holding a 

 place of high trust and responsibility, but I can assure you 

 that his conscientiousness and maturity of mind are quite 



