RESOLUTIONS. 



ACTION OF THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS. 



AT a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 

 Oct. n, 1880, the following entry was made upon the record : 



"The President and Fellows desire to express their deep regret at the 

 death of Benjamin Peirce, Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathemat- 

 ics, on the 6th inst., in the seventy-second year of his age, and the fiftieth 

 of his service as a College teacher. 



"The University must long lament the loss of an intelligence so rare, an 

 experience so rich, and a personal influence so strong, as his. 



"As a teacher, he inspired young minds with a love of truth, and touched 

 them with his own enthusiasm ; as a man of science, his attainments and 

 achievements and his public services have reflected honor upon the Univer- 

 sity and the country." 



ACTION OF THE FACULTY OF HARVARD COLLEGE. 



At a meeting of the Faculty held Nov. 15, 1880, it was voted to 

 enter the following on the Faculty Records : 



"The Faculty of Harvard College desire to put on record their sense of 

 the loss which they, individually and collectively, have sustained in the death 

 of Professor Benjamin Peirce, in the fiftieth year of his service as a teacher 

 and as a member of this body. 



"Gifted with an extraordinary intuition in his favorite science, he was 

 eager to lead where few were able to follow ; but all felt the inspiration of 

 his profound thought and earnest utterance. With full consciousness of his 

 own powers, he over-estimated the abilities of others. Those who came into 

 intimate contact with him were attracted by the simplicity of his nature and 



