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BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 
Our honored seeogints Professor BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, * the 
founder of this Journal, whose name has appeared upon the 
title page of every number, from the first until the present, is with 
us no more. cl died at his residence in New Haven, early 
Thursday m g, Nov. 24, 1864 (the day set apart for a na- 
tional CHRB SMe having reached the age a is years. 
omes our duty to place on record in these pages, as an 
inscription to the monument which he has himself erected, an 
outline of his career and a tribute i his memory. Few men 
