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between Individuals and Nations," '■' Economical Questions bearing on Canada," 

 Ac. Linguistics, too, had been cultivated by him through an hereditary predi- 

 lection ; but no papers of his on that subject appear in our Journal. 



Our regrets for the loss of Professor Hincks are shared by the University of 

 Toronto, and by numerous members of the community at large. Many of the 

 youth of Western Canada gratefully acknowledge their intellectual indebtedness 

 to him. They have derived from him a precious discipline of the powers of obser- 

 vation, with apt methods of analysis and classification. Through him there has 

 been enkindled within some of them an ardour in the pursuit of particular stu- 

 dies in Natural Philosophy which will be quenched only, as in their instructor, 

 with life; with such effect, in their case, did he speak of "trees, from the cedar 

 that is on Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; of 

 beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes ;" nor did he fail to 

 turn the thoughts of his auditors, at all fitting moments, to the infinite perfec- 

 tion of the Divine handiwork in every organism and object. 



Not to speak of the amount of quiet personal happiness secured to individuals 

 through the zest added to everyday life by the possession of an eye taught how 

 to see, and a mind taught how, in some degree, to intei'pret the things seen, 

 results of vast moral and material advantage to the whole of Canadian Society 

 must in duQ time accrue from so large a portion of the community having been, 

 by such men as the late Professor, trained to look intelligently on nature, and so 

 ■qualified to put to their designed uses the several parts of the wonderful world 

 which is appointed to be the scene of man's labours. 



Having, in common with you all, entertained a very sincere regard for the 

 late Professor Hincks, I could not let slip the opportunity of offering this tribute 

 to his memory, which will long continue green amongst us, 



[The late Professor Hincks was the son of the Rev. Dr. Hincks, of Belfast, 

 Professor of Plebrew in the Royal Institution of that city, and brother of the dis- 

 tinguished Oriental Scholar and Archijeologist, Dr. Edward Hincks, formerly 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. On the establishment of a chair of Natural 

 History in Queen's College, Cork, the late Professor received the appointment ; 

 and from 1854 he held a similar position in University College, Toronto. He 

 died on Sunday, Sept. lOLh, 1871, aged 79. He contributed papers on Botany to 

 the British Association, of which he was an early member, and to the Linntean 

 Society, of which he was for many years a Fellow. His contributions to the 

 Ganadian Journal of Science, Literature and History are enumerated above.] 



