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OBITUARY. 



Charles Upham Shepard. — Professor Shepard died, after a 

 short illness, on the first of May last, at Charleston, S. C., where 

 for many years he had spent his winters. He was born in Little 

 Cornptorj, R. I., in the summer of 1804, and hence had nearly 

 completed his eighty-second year. But until his last illness he 

 was still young in his ardent devotion to his favorite science, his 

 delight over the rare and beautiful among minerals, whether in 

 his own cabiuet or that of another, and his zeal for collecting and 

 discovering new facts and new species ; and not less young in his 

 cheerful and kindly nature. 



After graduating at Amherst College in 1824, he became a 

 student of Professor Nuttall's at Cambridge in Botany and Min- 

 eralogy, and soon after engaged at Boston in instruction in these 

 branches. At the same time he commenced his publications on 

 mineral localities and their minerals, in this Journal. 



In 1827, Mr. Shepard accepted the position of assistant to Pro- 

 fessor Silliman in Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology, which he 

 retained, to the great satisfaction of the Professor, for four years. 

 While thus engaged he also continued, during leisure weeks, his 

 field and laboratory work in mineralogy. " A Mineralogical 

 Journey in Northern New England," including a study of the 

 remarkable localities of Acworth, N. H., and Paris, Me., and 

 " The Mineralogy and Geology of Orange County, N. Y., and 

 Sussex County, N. J.," illustrated by a detailed map of the vari- 

 ous mineral localities, are the titles of two of the many papers 

 published by him at that time ; and they indicate his desire to 

 give others a knowledge of localities, as well as to make known 

 the results of his investigations. 



In 1832, Professor Shepard published the first part of a "Trea- 

 tise on Mineralogy," in which the system of the eminent Austrian 

 mineralogist, Mohs, was adopted as to nomenclature and as to 

 the natural history idea of mineral species. The second or de- 

 scriptive part of the work, containing the descriptions of the species 

 arranged in alphabetical order, appeared in 1835. This delay in 

 its publication was partly owing to Professor Shepard's accep- 

 tance, from the general government, for the winter of 1832-33, of 

 an appointment as an associate with Professor Silliman, for the 

 investigation of the methods of sugar culture and manufacture in 

 the Southern States, and to the preparation of his report on the 

 subject, which was incorporated with that of Professor Silliman 

 made in 1833 to the Secretary of the Treasury. In the same year, 

 1 835, he joined Dr. Percival by appointment from the State legis- 

 lature, in the Geological Survey of Connecticut ; and two years 

 later, in 1837, appeared his excellent report on the mineralogy 

 and mineral products of the State. 



His professorial work after 1832 was divided between New 

 Haven, Conn., Amherst, Mass., and Charleston, S. C. To his 

 duties at Yale under Professor Silliman were added those of Lec- 

 turer in Natural History, which position he held for fifteen years. 



