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depression which was natural to a sensitive spirit, no less remark- 

 able for its modesty than for its merit, he found solace in the 

 friendly words of good cheer and hopefulness addressed to hira 

 by Mr. William Dunlap.* While one day making, with Mr. 

 Henry, a trip down the Hudson River, on board the same steam- 

 boat, Mr. Dunlap observed in the young teacher's face the marks 

 of sadness, and, on learning its cause, he laid his hand affection- 

 ately on Henry's shoulder, and closed some reassuring advice 

 with the prophetic words, " Albany will one day be proud of her 

 son." The presage was destined to be abundantly confirmed. 

 Soon afterwards came the call to Princeton College, and, be- 

 cause of the wider career it opened to him, the call was as grate- 

 ful to Henry as its acceptance was gratifying to the friends of 

 that institution. And shortly before this promotion, a new happi- 

 ness had come to crown his life in his marriage to the excellent 

 lady who still survives hira. 



He entered upon the duties of his new post in the month of 

 November, 1832, and bringing with him a budding reputation, 

 which soon blossomed into the highest scientific fame, he became 

 the pride and ornament of the Princeton Faculty. The prestige 

 of his magnets attracted students from all parts of the country; 

 but the magnetism of the man was better far than any work of 

 his cunning hand or fertile brain. It was in Princeton, as he 

 was afterwards wont to say, that he spent the happiest days of 

 his. life, and they were also among the most fruitful in scientific 

 discovery. Leaving the record of his particular achievements at 

 this epoch to be told by Mr. Taylor, who is so well qualified 

 to do them justice, I beg leave only to refer to this period in 

 the career of Prof. Henry as that in which it was my good for- 

 tune to come, for the first time, under the personal influence of 

 the great philosophical scholar, who, after being my teacher in 

 science during the days of my college novitiate at Princeton^ 

 continued during the whole of his subsequent life to honor me 

 with a friendship which was as much ray support in every eraer- 

 gency that called for counsel and guidance, as it was at all times 

 my joy and the crown of my rejoicing. 



* This Mr. Dnnlap had been the manager of the Park Theatre in New- 

 York, and combined with his dramatic vocation the pursuits of literature 

 and the painter's art. He wrote the " History of Arts and Designs in the 

 United States," a work which was esteemed a standard one at the data 

 of its first publication in 1834. 



