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parents and other relatives, in mourning his early departure. 

 The best feelings of our natures, the kindest affection of 

 our hearts, are expressed in our tears ; and the Saviour 

 himself, wept at the death of his friend. Long will it be, 

 before the event we this day deplore, shall be recollected 

 within these walls without the deepest sorrow ; — or the 

 name of him we have lost, be here mentioned without 

 awakening the tenderest sympathy." 



The articles furnished by Professor Fisher for this Jour- 

 nal are the following. 



Essay on Musical Temperament. Vol. I. 



Remarks on Dr. Enfield's Institutes of Natural Philoso- 

 phy. Vol. III. 



On some recent Improvements in the construction of the 

 Printing Press, h.c. Vol. 111. 



On Maxima and Minima of Functions of two variable 

 Quantities. Vol. V. 



Among articles furnished by him for other works, the fol- 

 lowing may be mentioned — 



Solutions of various Mathematical Questions, under the 

 signature X, in the " American Monthly Magazine," com- 

 menced in New York, in the year 1817. Among these, 

 the solution of a Prize Question, proposed by Professor 

 Adrain, as to themost advantageous position of the sail of a 

 windmill, ivhen the ratio of the velocities of the sail and 

 tvind is given, is deserving of particular notice. 



Solutions of various questions under the signature ofKov- 

 Anglus, in Leybourn's Mathematical Repository. 



Observations on the Comet of 1819, and calculation 

 of its orbit, in the fourth volume of the Memoirs of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



I cannot dismiss the subject of the preceding notice, 

 without adding my own testimony to the merits of my la- 

 mented friend and coadjutor. Professor Fisher. It is nat- 

 ural to dwell, with fondness, upon the character of a depart- 

 ed friend, an^ the more so, when a sudden and tragical death 



