100 The late Dr. Robert Hare. 
Art. XVIL—The late Dr. Robert Hare. 
Durine the progress of the forty years of our editorial labors, 
sorrow has often been awakened as we have been called to re- 
cord the departure from life of friends and fellow laborers in 
ba sent See 
t Hark, the distinguished chemist and philosopher, 
wis. aise. in Philadelphia on the 15th of last May in the 78th 
year of his age, is entitled to a grateful commemoration in this 
enumeration of the titles merely of about one hundred and fifty 
arti y him, occupies five columns of the general 
index of the first fifty volumes of the Journal. He a ppears in 
+ of those volumes and in seven volumes of the Second 
adr more than half a century his name has been familiar to 
men of science as a chemical philosopher, oe to the cultivators 
of the useful arts throughout the civilized w 
Dr. Robert Hare was born in Philadelphia, Jan. 17, aie 
er was an Enelishman, a man of strong mind, and hon- 
tune to science. Before the age of twenty he gave evidence of 
this predilection for scientific pursuits by following the courses 
of lectures on chemistry and physical science in his native city 
and by uniting himself with the Chemical Society of Philad ‘ 
a then embracing the names of cue eet spincilas and Wood- - ‘ 
memoir ‘ 
tion . of platinum,” His oe to the Cher 
‘ately published in 1801 and was esi 
80 and also in the 
