2 Charles Grafton Page. 
1853. After the discontinuance of that Journal with the close 
of the year 1854, Prof. Page does not appear in any pub 
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ane until the year 1861, when he again entered the Patent , 
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eas Examiner of Patents, a tig which he held. for 
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Prof. Page is best a o a uelentian world as in’ lee. 
the remainder of his li 
trician. We have learned, reover, ‘‘from his mother 
other near friends that he Nacod a most remarkable Afadness 
for natural science in all its branches at a very early age. 
Once when about nine years old he was missing during a severe 
thunder storm, and on being sought by his anxious friends he 
was found on the top of the house, holding up at arm’s length a 
fire shovel to see if he could not catch a shock of Encity 
from the surcharged cloud!” It has been related also by h 
early friends that at ten years of age, having begged a = 
ass of his mother, he in due time surprised her with a suc- 
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cessful electric machine made by himself. Entomology re- 
ceived a portion of his attention while a school boy, and he 
had a passion for botany and floriculture and indulged in it to 
the extent of his ability. Respecting his school and college 
life we extract the following from a communication of Dr. 
Henry Wheatland, President ‘of the Essex Institute, of Salem, 
Mass. “ My acquaintance with O. age commence when 
we were classmates in the Salem Latin School. At that time 
he had the reputation of being interested in olecizicity, hav- 
as making an electric m e, The 
same taste followed him in his college course. In our junior 
year several of us, including Page, organized a chemical club. 
ach of the members was expected to lecture in ee 
order. Page lectured on electricity, the air pump, t 
this time he had a large collection of apparatus for a cleat, 
an electrical machine, air pump, &c. Several of us were also 
interested in natural history, as botany, mineralogy, ins 
was also enrolled in our number. After leaving eal 
bee! st a medical student, he carried his ie cn 
pythons er, taking up voltaism a oe 
ferent kinds, culminating in his extensive researches in 1836, 
or thereabouts, which resulied in producing motion by the 
magnetic ite * During his medical studies he delivered . 
f. Page, in the American sia ao, vol. i i a 6, attributes the . 
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