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1811 to 1815 ; then resided for several years at Andover, 

 Mass.; devoted to the study of Hebrew and the litera- 

 ture of the Bible. In 1824 he was invited to take charge of 

 the professorship of sacred literature in the Theological de- 

 partment of Yale College ; the duties of this he continued 

 to discharge until failing health compelled him to retire. 

 He died at his residence in New Haven, March 25, 1861. 

 He held a high rank among American scholars, not only for 

 learning and research in his special departments, but for his 

 thorough acquaintance with general philology. He has been 

 accustomed to devote a portion of his vacation each year for 

 several years past, in this city, revisiting the scenes of his 

 youth and meeting with the few of his old acquaintances 

 that remain. 



2d. — Nathaniel I. Bowditch, of Boston, son of Hon. 

 Nathaniel and Mary (IngersoU) Bowditch, born at Salem, 

 Jan'y 17, 1805, graduated at Harvard in 1822, died at 

 Brookline, April 16, 1861, a fter a long and painful illness. 

 He is well known as a diligent antiquary, and the history and 

 titles of the estates in Boston formed his principal study. 



3d. — John B. Williams, son of Israel and Lydia (Waite) 

 Williams, was born at Salem, Sept. 28, 1810 ; died at Levuka, 

 Ovalau, Fejee Islands, June 10, 1860, where he had resided 

 for many years, the United States Consul for those Islands. 



4th. — Samuel Walker, of Roxbury, born at Cardington, 

 England, Sept. 9, 1793, and has long resided in the vicinity 

 of Boston. He has been one of the most active and intelli- 

 gent members and officers of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, and for some years its President. He died Dec. 

 11, 1860. 



Publications.— Vol. 11, Part 2, of Proceedings was issued 

 in September ; also six numbers of the Historical Collections, 



