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cence, and his willingness not only to labor but to wait; 

 but these stood not at all in the way of my respect and 

 affection for him. 



His liberality was unstinted. While using his fortune 

 in taking up the lands, he was constantly doing generous 

 things for the university and those connected with it. One 

 of the first of these was his gift of the library in classical 

 literature collected by Dr. Charles Anthon of Columbia 

 College. Nothing could apparently be more outside his 

 sympathy than the department needing these seven thou- 

 sand volumes ; but he recognized its importance in the gen- 

 eral plan of the new institution, bought the library for 

 over twelve thousand dollars, and gave it to the university. 



Then came the Jewett collection in geology, which he 

 gave at a cost of ten thousand dollars ; the Ward collection 

 of casts, at a cost of three thousand ; the Newcomb collec- 

 tion in conchology, at a cost of sixteen thousand ; an addi- 

 tion to the university grounds, valued at many thousands 

 more ; and it was only the claims of a multitude of minor 

 university matters upon his purse which prevented his 

 carrying out a favorite plan of giving a great telescope, at 

 a cost of fifty thousand dollars. At a later period, to ex- 

 tinguish the university debt, to increase the equipment, and 

 eventually to provide free scholarships and fellowships, 

 he made an additional gift of about eighty thousand 

 dollars. 



While doing these things, he was constantly advancing 

 large sums in locating the university lands, and in paying 

 university salaries, for which our funds were not yet avail- 

 able ; while from time to time he made many gifts which, 

 though smaller, were no less striking evidences of the 

 largeness of his view. I may mention a few among these 

 as typical. 



Having found, in the catalogue of a London book- 

 seller, a set of Piranesi's great work on the "Antiquities 

 of Rome," a superb copy, the gift of a pope to a royal 

 duke, I showed it to him, when he at once ordered it for 

 our library at a cost of about a thousand dollars. At 



