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Prom 1845 to 1852, and from 1861 to 1877, he occupied the chair 

 of Chemistry and Natural History in Amherst College. In 1854, 

 he was called to the Professorship of Chemistry in the South 

 Carolina Medical College at Charleston ; he continued there until 

 1861, and again resumed the duties of the chair in 1865, after the 

 civil war, resigning them finally in 1869, when his son, Charles 

 U. Shepard, Jr., was appointed his successor. 



These university engagements interrupted but little his min- 

 eralogical work. His first new species, microlite, was announced 

 in this Journal in 1835, Warwickite in 1838, and Danburite in 

 1839. Other discoveries followed these, occasionally of new 

 species, often of kinds not before identified on the continent. 



Professor Shepard's private collection of minerals, under so 

 great personal activity, became large and choice, surpassing all 

 others on the continent. On retiring from his professorship at 

 Amherst the whole was purchased by Amherst College. Unfor- 

 tunately it passed from under his care to a building that was not 

 fire-proof, and one night in 1880 it was nearly all destroyed. 

 Professor Shepard did not cease collecting when he and his cabi- 

 net parted ; but with his old zeal redoubled by the sight of empty 

 shelves and drawers, he soon had again a large collection ; and it 

 continued to increase and to grow in interest with him to the 

 close of his life. 



Professor Shepard early commenced also the collection and 

 study of meteorites, and through his life these shared with min- 

 erals in his affections and his labors. In 1829, nearly sixty years 

 since, his first paper on the subject was published in this Journal ; 

 and others followed, until the number reached nearly forty, the 

 series closing with one in the last volume (September, 1885). 

 His collection grew, each paper being usually based on one or 

 more acquisitions ; and it was long the largest in the country. It 

 became like the minerals, and with them, the property of Amherst 

 College. 



Dr. Shepard's zeal to the end knew no flagging, and he had the 

 satisfaction of seeing great progress in his two departments, that 

 of meteorites and that of minerals, through his labors. His knowl- 

 edge of mineral species was unsurpassed in the land ; and he was 

 hence ready with quick judgments as to new and old; sometimes 

 too quick — but in any case imparting progress to American Min- 

 eralogy. 



Dr. Shepard was several times in Europe and had the personal 

 acquaintance of many European mineralogists. He was a member 

 of various American and Foreign societies; among them, the 

 Imperial Society of Naturalists of St. Petersburg, and the Royal 

 Society of Gottingen. He was a man of refinement and great 

 courtesy, and was held in very high esteem in Charleston, S. C, 

 as well as at his northern homes. His place of residence since 

 leaving Amherst, and for much of his life before, was New Haven. 

 He leaves two children, a son and a daughter. 



