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George T. Bowen, Professor of Chemistry, &c. in the 

 University of Tennessee. 



The death of this promising young man, also a coadjutor, 

 as well as a pupil and friend, is thus announced in a letter 

 from one of his associates : we trust that the personal allu- 

 sions will be excused by our readers. 



" Nashville Universitj^ Oct. 29, 1828. 

 " Prof. Silliman : 



" Dear Sir — I have to communicate to you the afflicting 

 intelligence of the death of your friend, Mr. Bowen, of our 

 college. He died on the 25th instant, of the hasty consump- 

 tion, occasioned, as he supposed, by a neglected cold. He 

 was seized with Hseraoptisis or blood-spitting, the first of last 

 July, which continued with intervals, till it settled into a con- 

 firmed consumption. He often mentioned your name very 

 affectionately, and requested me on his dying bed to send 

 you an aerolite which he had obtained in this country, and 

 with it his best respects, and the hope that he would meet 

 you in a better world. It will be grateful to learn that for 

 three months before his death, he made religion the subject 

 of his undivided attention ; bore his illness with great com- 

 posure and resignation, and died without a struggle, relying 

 for salvation on his Saviour alone. 



" I will send you the aerolite by the first safe opportunity, 

 and with it a notice of the circumstances attending its fall." 



Mr. Bowen early indicated a strong bent towards natural 

 science. While a member of the junior class in Yale Col- 

 lege, he obtained special permission from the faculty to oc- 

 cupy, in the chemical laboratory and in the cabinet of mine- 

 ralogy and geology, under the direction of the professor of 

 that department, all the time which he could save from the 

 exact fulfilment of his college duties. 



His pledge to the faculty was faithfully redeemed — their in- 

 dulgence to an undergraduate was without a precedent, but 

 they had no reason to regret it. In this situation Mr. Bowen 

 spent the leisure hours of two years, discovered uncommon 

 ardor, skill, and perseverance, was a most obliging, devoted 

 and useful assistant, and in a few months, was able to enter 

 upon difficult experiments and to perform regular analyses. 



1. His analysis of the sulphat of strontian and the sulphat 

 of Barytes. Vol. IV. p. 324 of this Journal. 



2. That of the calcareous oxide of tungsten. 



3. That of the pyroxene of New Haven, 



