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1883,] 245 (Robinson. 
father’s patriotic and useful life, at the comparatively 
early age of fifty-two years. He was in deep mourn- 
ing, and, being naturally reserved, had but few ac- 
quaintances among his countrymen in Paris, themselves 
then comparatively few in number. Being within a 
few weeks of the same age with him, and sincerely 
sympathizing with him in his profound sorrow, we 
became, naturally, in a short time well acquainted. 
This acquaintance ripened, during our travels together 
in England the following .summer, into a respect and 
friendship which continued uninterrupted, until we 
were separated by his death on the 3d of March last, 
At that time, and indeed until recently, I knew but 
little of the honorable and valuable life which Mr. Henry 
Seybert had been leading for several years previous 
in his native city. His disposition was taciturn, and 
he preferred generally listening to the opinions and 
conversation of others to taking part in conversation 
himself, and but for the request of’ the Society to pre- 
pare this tribute to his memory, I should probably 
never have known how highly he was estimated at the 
time of our first meeting, by eminent chemists and 
mineralogists, of both Europe and America. Professor 
Benjamin Silliman, in the volume before quoted from, 
in which he speaks of Mr. Adam Seybert, makes the 
following mention in page 74, of the same, of the son: 
“Like his father, Adam Seybert, he was educated in 
the School of Mines in Paris, and was an early con- 
tributor to our knowledge of the constitution of Ameri- 
