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tribution to astronomy. He has done all the work, observations, 
reductions, drafting, etc., without assistance, and has s published 
with respect to changes going on in the starry heavens. 
OBITUARY. 
Trrus Coan.—Rey. Titus Coan died on the first of December 
last, in his eighty-second year, at Hilo, Hawaii, where for nearly 
forty-eight years, sy had labored aé a faithful, lar ge-hearted 
Christian missiona 
Throughout his ruskdence at Hilo he had also another object of 
care and deep interest in the volcanic mountain at whose e foot he 
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accounts have always been of geological value. 
account appearing in the Missionary ergs for 1841 (p. 28 3)5 
and also of the summit eruption of 1843 (id. 1843, and Big 
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act XXv (1858), xxvii (1859), Xxix (1860), xx xv (1861), xxxvii 
1864), xl 0), and -s ges xiii (1867), xlvi (1868), xlvii (1869), 
xlix (1870 Series, vols. ii (1871), iv (1872), V 
tion, because previous notices had given many of the facts) when 
he w 
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is due his name from science for his valuable and 
long oontininad observations on the Hewiclan volcanoes. 
