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concluded his law studies, he realized ‘ag cherished dream of his 
youth in his elevation under the regime of Provost Ludlow to the 
chair of natural philosophy and ch ct in the academical 
department of his Alma Mater. ‘This position he filled with the 
highest honor to his aes and to himself for over thirty years. 
oon after assuming wes wn ft the professor, he became the 
rnal 
the cit , and was the rendezvous for the most pawn 
scientists in this and foreign countries when they visited Philadel- 
phia. was known throughout Europe by bis constant writings 
as Ps ig pearls in science and universally learned in his depart- 
He was a member of the Academy of Natural spaascr 
of this city, and also one of the four secretaries of the 
ociety of a in this country—the American Philosophical 
Society of this city. 
Although holding the chair of chemistry and natural philosophy, 
his favorite science was that of mathematics as applied to mechanics. 
This branch brought out his close study and keen appreciation of 
all the basic laws of mechan ies, and raised him to a deservedly 
high rank as a transcendental mechanician 
Professor Frazer had a remarkably gen nial disposition, was full of 
life and humor among his fellows, and though brusque in manner 
and decided in his intercourse with his sical he was ace 
liked by all who came in contact with him. was bold and 
pti ei in all his seen, being an sr Dem noe its 
Notes of an Ornithological Reconnoissance of portions of Kansas, a’ 
8h teenies and ee by J. A. Allen, 72 pp. 8vo. aoa 1872, Being No. 6, ¥ 
IH, of of the Museum of Comparative Zoolo ogy at t Harvard College, 
Cacabride Lom f this 
Problem of Rotary Motion presented by t ho-Gyrosoope, th Procession ©: No. 
Equinoxes and the Pendulum, by Brevet Mision J. @. aad 48 pp. re 
240 of the Smithsonian Contributions to Kn rior 
Intermembral Homologies. The Co orrespondence ‘of the Anterior and pve rs 
Limbs of Vertebrates; by Burt. G. Wilder, M.D., Prof. Comp. Anat. and yon 
Cornell Univ., Ith aca, N.Y. 88 pp. 8vo.. From the Proceedings of the 
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