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own expense ; and through this work, which he continued to edit for 
twenty-eight years, until his death, he was enabled to. do much for the: 
advancement of science and the arts in this country. in 
His connexion with th United States Patent Office, over which he 
can inventions. e was so well informed on these subjects that, with 
his strength of memory, whee n a supposed improvement was laid before 
im, he could refer to the work and the very page where the,sa 
e. 
could often save the applicants all further trouble and ex 
written specifications of patents, and his monthly comm 
those which had been issued, as recorded i in the a Socteil for 
n 
sought in courts of law involving patent claims, and in appea 
the decisions of the office. 
of him is attested by his slection as honora es member of various learn- 
ed oo with which they were connected. 
841, his restoration to the Patent Office was urged by testimoni- 
als pee ail parts of the country, emanating from sources calculated to 
give them great weig 1d 
ot his private life much could be said. He passed eS the wor 
ion 
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wholined with business, and never uncourteous or impetuous. 
