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sies which have lately been carried on respecting the management of 
the institution have increased the solicitude of its friends with regard 
to its future prospects in a degree which can hardly be realized by 
those who are not immediately connected with the great cause of 
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As a foreigner, who has enjoyed but fora few years the privilege 
of adding his small share to support the powerful impulse which scien- 
Selves made i prosecution ; but there is one standard of apprecia- 
tion which cannot fail to guide rightly those who would form a candid 
Opinion tit. J mean the lives of those who have most extensively 
dt never owned*a book, not even a copy of his own 
works, as 1 know from his own lips. ‘“ He was too poor,” he once 
Said to me, “ to secure a copy of them ;” and all the works he receives 
Constantly from his scientific friends are distributed by him to needy 
