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He gave four courses before the Lowell Institute in Boston, 
“ Treated everywhere,” says President Woolsey, in speaking 
of these lectures, —“ treated everywhere with the highest con- 
sideration, weleomed by the numerous sons of Yale dispersed 
through this broad land, he had almost a triumphal progress, 
and widely diffused, it is believed, a taste for physical 
science.” 
Such is a brief summary of the scientific labors of our 
deceased associate. I can recall but few men who have 
labored so long, and done so much. But my task would be 
incomplete without some additional remarks illustrative of 
his character and services. 
In the general retrospect of his life, one cannot but be 
struck with the amount of labor which he performed. The 
superintendence of his journal, preparing its articles, carry- 
ing on its large domestic and foreign correspondence, and 
looking after its insufficient finances, was itself no easy task.. 
But to this he added almost daily lectures to his classes,, 
often requiring much preparation, and yet found time te 
prepare books of instruction, and lectures for the public. 
It seems to me that the utility of science, in its broadest 
sense, was always uppermost in his mind. He is always 
tracing abstract principles to their practical applications. In 
his several books and papers, he aims at the accomplishment 
of useful ends. His style of writing looks to this. It is 
direct, simple, perspicuous. Its only object seems to be to 
expound clearly the subject under consideration. It is busi- 
ness-like. It reads as if the author had too many important 
Matters on his hands to occupy himself in the mere refine- 
; _ ‘ments of style. 
_ We have already referred to the distinction between the 
discoverer of new truths and him who diffuses them abroad 
_ and gives to them their practical applications. The former 
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