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never sought or rece ived, bug from pure and ity motives. He 
was of the school of Was hington—an enthusiastic admirer of 
that great man—a federalist, while that grmtival party had a 
name and retained vi tality—an nd when it passed by an imper- 
er ee haere into another form, he was found among the 
gs asionally wrote upon the great political and finan- 
cial cutie which me the public mind. These discussions 
like all his writings, were always marked by vigorous es 
large views, and slevanal patriotism. 
m e was not however ae rch a man of science as to 
pt ignore the charms of literature. articular friends know 
J that his philosophy was somtellises softened by listening to the 
muses, and he occasionally indulged in poetical composition. 
r. Hare was one of the few life members of the Smithsonian 
Tpatitation to which he gave soon after he resigned his profes- 
ship, all his chemical and physical apparatus, which has thus 
become the property of the nation. 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
<< I. CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. 
1. On ihe erystallographical and chemical relations of Hornblende and 
original 
paper for the very numerous analyses and formulas byw cap lores 
su 
(1) A series of isomorphous silicates, whose principal mem members aro 
augite and hornblende, forms a larger group, that Tf th the augites. — 
structure separates them into two groups, at the head of each of wee 
one of the two minerals stands as a type. A member of the first division 
* 
abe The forms of all these minerals may be referred to ea 
(2), Tue chemical character ofthe group ix that the members ar 
bisilic 
ie (8) ‘Tho members may be clasifed according to the chemical charac- 
ter of their constituents wee Agen Non are characterized by the 
presence or absence of. caaslieapak 
A. Pure bisilicates oF ono Wolastonit, diopside, “gi light 
colored. augites generally, but also black ones ri in protoxy: iron, 
' shy perst and for Ge ber ast bronzite, rhodonite and fowlerite be- 
ae long to the augite type; the light colored moopomertaee at least tremolite 
a setcelite, 5 as i as mdm to — hornblende type. 
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