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illustrious Jacobi at Berlin. The last mail has now brought intelligence 
of the death of Prof. Goldschmidt, of the Gottingen Observatory. You wi 
doubtless be glad to give place in your Journal fora line of tribute to 
his memory, from one who knew and loved him well. 
3. W. B. Goldschmidt was Extraordinary Professor of Astronomy in 
the University of Gottingen, and assistant to Gauss at the Observatory 
in that place ; filling in both respects the position previously occupied 
rof. Harding, the author of the Celestial charts, and the discoverer 
He was nurtured, like Jacobi, in the Hebrew faith, but his character 
was eminently conspicuous for the Christian virtue—love to God and 
man. ‘Though perhaps not a great astronomer, he was an enthusiastic 
and a laborious one; and in his peculiar position, rendered unquestion- 
ably more essential and lasting services to astronomy, than many a man 
whose name will occupy a more conspicuous place in the annals of 
science. If the earnest devotion of a life to his favorite studies, and the 
sincerest efforts uprightly and conscientiously to fulfill the duties assigned 
him in the great march of scientific progress, can give ac aim to the 
gratitude and remembrance of mankind, Goldschmidt’s name will be 
long honored by those who never knew him. It will not easily be 
forgotten by those whose privilege and joy it was to call him their 
riend. 
Among the scientific labors of Prof. Goldschmidt, I may mention his 
labors in connection with Gauss and Weber’s Resultate des Magnelis- 
chen Vereins, and especially in preparing the Atlas of Terrestrial Magnet- 
_ ism, which accompanies that work ; his discovery of the periodicity of the 
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comet generally known as “ Faye’s ;” his investigation of the minimum 
surfaces of rotation of curves about a fixed axis; and numerous com- 
m orbits. 
His death was like his life——quiet and peaceful. He had long suf- 
fered from the consequences of an enlargement of the heart; and on 
the morning of Feb. 15th, he was found in his bed, sleeping the sleep. 
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knows no waking 
Witutam Srurceon.—Mr. Sturgeon, the eminent electrician, died 
en the 8th of December last. His researches have given his name a 
prominent place in the history of Science in England. Boro of hum- 
ble parents at Whittington, near Lancaster, in 1783 
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ticed early in life toa shoemaker. Subsequently he entered the West- 
moreland militia, and after two years’ service volunteered into the 
royal artillery, in which corps he served about twenty years. Uuring 
is connection with the artillery, his attention was awakened by a ter- 
rifie thunder-storm to thoughts on the mysterious power that was exhib- 
and he resolved to study its nature. Books about him 
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