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on the subject i in sees country. The emery mines of Turkey gave 
him a new subject for research; and his report on them is the 
first full dete “of the geological character and mineralogy of 
n emery region that had appeal ared. Besides a careful chemical 
by publ lication in the pa des Savants étrangers Dr. 
Smith afterward studied the emery of Chester, Massachusetts, in 
which he confir gets and extended his previous observations on 
the mineral and its mode of occurrence and mineral associates. 
Dr. Smith published also a chemical report on the Thermal 
eave of Asia Minor. 
American mineralogy owes very much to Dr. Smith for his care- 
ful ey aaa moons: the earlier of which were carried on 
eeimatly bag Professor Brush; and the science of Chemistry 
In many ways, and especially for the method proposed by him 
and since adived generally, for the determination of the alkalies 
in silicates, any ingenious appliances were proposed by Dr. 
His papers givin 
chemical ee physical investigations of different meteoric stones 
and irons are very numerous zane have advanced Srey this de- — 
partment of science. It was the topic of his last paper, which 
appeared in this Journal in Ake une of the present year. Dr, Sul . 
published in 1873 a volume containing a collection of his pa 
to that date, ae out of the 400 pages, 100 are devoted to his 
a6 on meteor es. 
batlcreins of meteorites “_ ‘that also of minerals was given b 
him two years since to th olytechnic Society of Louisville. 
He was a 1 —— scientific sagas ag foreign 
ee in his adopted city says justly of him: “Eminent in his 
profession, he was more than eminent in his home. He was a 
rate, Salis but he was a man of affairs, a man of convic- 
tions, a man among men, who, though absorbed in scientific 
pursuits, took a sincere and pr rofound interest in public questions 
and events. He had not an enemy on earth, despite = poate y 
and transparency of his opinions, and he goes to r 
leaving the people with whom he was so long identified to mourn 
the loss of a citizen of whom all were proud and whom ever ybody 
loved and honored. 
