Obituary. 303 
year. His first geological paper, and in fact his first important contribution 
to science, was his “ Remarks on the Geology and Mineralogy of a section 
of Massachusetts on Connecticut River,” published with a map in the first 
volume of this Journal, and dated at Deerfield, Oct.1817. From 1818 
to 1825 he was the Pastor of a church in Conway, Mass., still pursuing 
his scientific studies as is evident from his papers, chiefly on mineralogy 
and geology, published in the first ten volumes of this Journal. He gave 
hi : 
Chemistry and Natural History in Amherst College, with whose history 
845 he 
examine the geology of the State, which resulted at last, in 1841, in a 
final report in two quarto volumes of 840 pages, with 56 plates and 82 
Wwood-cuts. This was independent of the separate reports on zoology and 
uction—althou; h it was so 
Much his habit to despond and still labor on, that we felt it not neg 
: ; vi 
? ‘This Journal, vol. ix, p. 107. 
