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growing reputation. But beyond these, and his own family circle, he 
was little known. In politics he never mingle or the ordi 
amusements and excitements of the world he had no taste. . His one 
absorbing passion was a love of science, and that for its own sake. 
Seldom has there been a man so highly gifted, of more retiring mod- 
esty, or greater meekness and simplicity of character.—Cin. Gaz, 
Feb. } ee 
[We subjoin the following sketch of Mr. Walker’s scientific labors 
given at a meeting of the officers and members of the U.S. Coast 
accomplished. During this discussion he reached the —— 
investigation, which was not completed at the time of his decease. 
the midst of it, the new, attractive, and important subject of determitr 
ing differences of longitnde by the telegraph was committed 10 
and he threw all his zeal and knowledge into the solution of this pro 
lem, and brought it to the successful condition in which it now IS 
regulated to different times—as, for example, mean solar and 
and seized all the consequences flowing from this principle. 
- graphing of transits of stars was original with him. mee of the 
_ He soon became satisfied of the necessity for graphic regist'y © 
‘ume results, and invited the coéperation of Mr. Saxton, anes * 
of Prof. Mitchell, and of Dr. Locke in the solution. With him origi 
ated the application of this method to the registry of time obser inget” 
for general ast i loped b 
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jous modes : a dope # BY SPrie research 
» and known as the “ American Method hil ‘ifference 
are 
his mind found there to do, and, aside from this and labors of a 
and nightly routine in computing and observing, 
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