BIOGRAPHIC NOTICE. 



New York, February 26, 1880. 

 Mr. G. K Gilbert: 



Dear Sir: I take pleasure in complying- with your request to furnish 

 you a brief sketch of the personal character of the late Prof. Henry Newton 

 nnd of the work accomplished in his short but busy life. My relations 

 witli him were most intimate for many years, and there is perhaps no one 

 living who more fully shared his confidence, is more familiar with what he 

 accomplished, or better capable of judging of the promise of the life upon 

 which he had but just entered when it was brought to a close. 



I fear, however, that I shall hardly find words to do justice to the rare 

 qualities he possessed, or to express my own affection for him. 



Mr. Newton was born in the year 1 845 in the city of New York. He 

 early showed a strong taste for scientific studies, and an unusual mathe- 

 matical faculty, which he inherited from his father — the late Isaac Newton, 

 well known from his connection with the growth of the great system of 

 steam navigation on the Hudson — and shared with his brother Isaac, the 

 distinguished naval engineer. His academical education was obtained at 

 the College of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1866, and 

 came to us at the School of Mines in the autumn of the same vear. During' 

 all his course of study he exhibited the traits which marked his after career. 

 He was noted for his punctuality, thoroughness, and accuracy of thought, 

 and success in all the studies pursued, and no less so for his modest, reserved, 

 and at the same time agreeable manners. No student has left the school 

 with a better record, and when he graduated, in 1 869, he had won the 

 sincere respect and esteem of all his teachers and associates. The follow- 



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