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Art. XVII— Obituary Notices of Brown and Humboldt, Members — 
A the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; from the Report | 
_ of the Council of the Academy for 1859. __- 
(Proceedings of the Academy, vol. iv, p. 229 et sia) 
’ BrYonp the immediate pale of science, and 
_ Most devoted cultivators, the association of the nam 
_ BoLpt and Brown may seem new and strange;—the 
me 
It was Humboldt himself who, many 
rown ae the appellation of JS aed 
inceps ; and the universal consent of botanists ts recognized 
firmed the title. However the meed of merit in science 
vided between the most profound, and the most 
Ctive and prolific minds -between those who divine and those 
