EULOGY 
ON 
JOSEPH 8S. HUBBARD. 
By B. A. GOULD. 
[Read before the National Academy at New Haven, 1864, Aug. 5.] 
Mr. Presipent AND GENTLEMEN : — 
The Constitution of our Academy, like the organic law of © 
most Academies of Science beyond the seas, provides for the 
tribute of a formal Biographical Notice, pronounced in open 
session, in commemoration of each of our number who may ~ 
be removed by death. For it is no unreasonable assumption 
that public benefit and individual incentives may be derived 
from the history of any man whose scientific services have 
rendered him worthy of admittance to your number. 
It has been the will of God that the first place in our 
ranks made vacant by death should be that of JosEPH ” 
Stittman Husparp, and in obedience to your instructions 
I am here to tell the simple story of his life ; — not without 
a doubt of my own ability for the task, yet glad that the lot 
has fallen to my share, for none outside the narrow limits of 
his kindred could have held him dearer. 
Upon our roll, Gentlemen of the Academy, are the names 
of venerable men, whose usefulness has extended through a 
period surpassing the total duration of most human lives, 
and side by side with these are the names of others, who 
were not yet cradled when the former were full of honors, 
