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(155 pages) of this Journal, and was profusely illustrated by figures of 
fossils, sections, and original drawings, embraced in thirty-six plates on 
wood. 
In 1837, Dr. Hildreth was appointed one of the assistant Geologists 
upon the Geological Survey of the State of Ohio; his report forms part 
of the published documents relating to that survey. The memory of 
Dr. Hildreth will mt be cherished among the early contributors to 
American geolo 
Dr. Hildreth was also an industrious and acute observer of facts in 
his special department, and the opis: ee from 1808 to 1825 
conta 
tory of the Settlement of Belville, Western Virginia,” published in the 
Hesperian Mugazine. In 1848 he published of History of t. 
Ohio Valley and of the Northwest Territory,” a volume of 525 pages 
This work is drawn chiefly from original sources, and is full both ot 
entertainment and rere res It ¢ contains plans and pert BY views 
om New England ait chiefly from Connecticut: In sik i pie 
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is collections in various departments of natural history, eA the num- 
ber of about 4000 specimens, he presented, together with his scientific 
library, to Marietta em oe Ohio, where they ¢ occupy a room known as 
the ‘ gore Cabinet 
bilities of civil life which the republic imposes on all her sons. at 
In his private life he illustrated every virtue of a christian ethene 
Bright and cheerful by nature, he loved nature with the simple enthusiasm 
of a child. Industrious and systematic in a pes Seach moment of 
and nature’s God—and among the patrons and co-workers in this Journal 
Who have left its founder almost alone, no one has shed a purer and 
More mellow light in the horizon of his setting sun—no one has de] 
more loved and regretted by the Senior Editor. 
Josern Sriimay Hvussarp, Professor of Mathematics in the U. S. 
a. and since 1845 detailed to duty in the Naval Observatory at 
ashington, died at the house of his widowed mother, in New Haven, 
" 16th, 1863, aged 40 years. 
sa of oe younger men of science in America have a more hono’ 
. than Prof. Hubbard. His taste for astronomy and his 
ins as Scr.—Seconp Serres, Vor. XXXVI, No. 107.—Sxpr., 1863. 
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