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— 1TE1V1ARKS OF ROBERT E. C. STEARNS 



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June 18th, 1877. 



Members of the Academy : The duty has fallen on me to 

 formally announce to the Academy the death of two of its 

 corresponding members, well-known and highly esteemed in 

 scientific circles — Colonel Ezekiel Jewett and Dr. Philip P. 

 Carpenter. This evening I will read the following brief bio- 

 graphical sketch of the first — reserving a notice of the latter 

 for another occasion. 



Colonel Ezekiel Jewett, Ph. D., who was elected a corres- 

 ponding member of the Academy, April 6th, 1868, was born 

 in the town of Eindge, New Hampshire, October 16th, 1791. 

 His educational opportunities were such as the common schools 

 of the neighborhood afforded at the time. His father, who 

 was a doctor of medicine, would have educated the son for the 

 same profession, but the diverse tastes and restless tempera- 

 ment of the latter, required a broader and more active field of 

 exertion than that of a countrj' physician. 



When, in 1812, accumulated grievances culminated in a 

 declaration of war by the United States with Great Britain, 



