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summons, in the morning of life, and with every thing to 

 live for, he was ready he was cheerful. If he had a 

 care, it was for those he was to leave for the aged and 

 venerable grandmother, who leaned upon him for the 

 father who had done so much for him for the family 

 circle which surrounded him for the wife of his tender- 

 est affections. He knew, he did not strive to conceal 

 from himself the pangs that would pierce them ; and 

 the thoughts that were diverted from Heaven, were for 

 them, to comfort and console them. 



His affections clung around his laboratory to the last 

 moment. He spoke of it with the deepest interest. After 

 executing a brief will, he made many verbal bequests, 

 among them the one to the college. " My apparatus and 

 books in the laboratory," he said, " I wish given to the 

 college, if the department shall be continued. I hope it 

 will be kept up ; it has cost me a great deal of labor." 



The public loss in this death is great indeed. With 

 that intense devotion to one great end in life, in which 

 he stood alone in this country in his department, and we 

 suppose the number of such men is not large abroad ; 

 with those habits of diligence which made him master of 

 the vast amount of knowledge, necessary in his profes- 

 sion, and that soundness of judgment which kept him 

 from all speculative schemes : with that confidence which 

 he had already inspired into the agricultural communi- 



