C.D.W. ILCOTT. 



THE 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



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Airr. LIII. — Professor Elias Loomis. 



A Memorial Address prepared at the request of the President and Fellows of 

 Yale College, by H. A. Newton, and delivered in Osborn Hall, April 11th, 1890. 



Elias Loomis was born in the little hamlet of Willington, 

 Conn., August 7th, 1811. His father, the Rev. Hubbell 

 Loomis, was pastor in that country parish from 1804 to 1828. 

 He was a man possessed of considerable scholarship, of posi- 

 tive convictions, and of a willingness to follow at all hazards 

 wherever truth and duty, as he conceived them, might lead. 

 He had studied at Union College, in the class of 1799, though 

 apparently he did not finish the college course with his class. 

 He is enrolled with that class in Union College, and he also 

 received, in 1S12, the honorary degree of Master of Arts from 

 Yale College. At a later date he went to Illinois, and there 

 was instrumental in founding the institution which afterwards 

 became Shurtleff College. 



Although the boy inherited from his father a mathematical 

 taste, yet his love for the languages also was shown at a very 

 early age. At an age at which many bright boys are still strug- 

 gling with the reading of English, he is reported to have been 

 reading with ease the New Testament in the original Greek. 

 He prepared for college almost entirely under the instruction of 

 his father. He was, for a single winter only, at the Academy 



Am. Jouu. Sci.— Third Series, Vol. XXXIX, No. 234.— June, 1890. 

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