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behalf, we find a mirror of his scientific life and labors. How much he 
was the servant of all work, in his position of President, appears from 
the following passage : 
“ My epistolary correspondence in the Presidency was peculiarly _ 
of a common school, an academy, or a professor in a college—or any one 
agements, his clear, firm grasp of truth sustained and raised him above 
all difficulties, and has secured him an honored name in science. And this 
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of the most gentle and excellent of men. Thus in two months eid 
Bairoreity of Berlin lost two of her most illustrious men, Mitscher 
~ Rose. 
