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wont to herbarize ; a few spent the time in dredging along 

 the adjacent shores, a boat having been sent from Salem for 

 this purpose. The visitors on this occasion were Mr. C. 

 Girard, an assistant of Prof. Agassiz, and a young man 

 named Stimpson, hailing from Cambridge, and not then 

 out of his teens. Acquaintance had been made with Mr. 

 Stimpson, a week or two previous, during a trip in the 

 steamer R. B. Forbes from Boston to Salem, with mem- 

 bers of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, who were visiting Salem, on the day after the 

 adjournment of the session at Cambridge. Dredges 

 having been put on board, at the suggestion of Professor 

 Agassiz, were used occasionally during the trip. 



Let us consider in this connection the subsequent career 

 of this young man, the notice of whose death at Ilchester, 

 near Baltimore, on the 26th ult., has been so recently 

 announced. That trip from Boston to Salem was his first 

 experience in dredging, a novelty to him, and he was 

 much interested in this pursuit. He visited Salem several 

 times during that autumn, and accompanied me on dredg- 

 ing excursions in the harbor. The results of his gleanings 

 on these occasions formed the basis of a series of observa- 

 tions which were embodied in a work on the New England 

 Shells, published in 1851 his first introduction to the 

 scientific world as an author. This was soon followed 

 by a paper on the Marine Invertebrates of Grand Menan, 

 published in 1853, under the auspices of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and has since been considered as the first 

 authority in the marine zoology of that region. He then 

 spent several years in the North Pacific, Japan, etc., as 

 naturalist to Government Expeditions and made vast col- 

 lections, principally the results of dredging in those seas. 

 He then resided for some years at Washington, in the 

 quiet prosecution of his investigations, and the publica- 



