Prqf&aor Eliae Loom is. 4^?*.* 



the contrast between England and France as be B*W them, and 



the Bame places as seen by the tourist to-day i^ decidedly inter- 

 esting. 



He purchased in London and Paris apparatus for his profes- 

 ship, and the outfit for a small observatory, and in the 

 Autumn of 1837 began Ins labors at Hudson. Here lie re- 

 mained for seven years, maintaining with unflagging perse- 

 verance both his work in teaching and his scientific labors. In 

 jndging of this work at Hudson we must remember that he was 

 not with perfect surroundings. He was without an assistant 

 and without the counsel qnd encouragement of associates in his 

 own branches of science. The financial troubles which culmi- 

 nated in this country in 1S3T were peculiarly severe upon the 

 young and struggling College. Money was almost unknown in 

 business circles in Ohio, trade being almost entirely in barter. 

 In this way principally was paid so much of the promised salary 

 < .f $60< > per annum as was not in arrears. In one of his letters he 

 congratulates himself that all of his bills that were more than 

 two years old had been paid. In another he says that there 

 was not enough money in the college treasury to take him out 

 of the state. When he left Hudson the College offered to pay 

 at once the arrears of his salary by deeding to him some of its 

 unimproved lands. 



In 1844 he was offered, and he accepted, the office of Profes- 

 sor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the University 

 of Xew York. In this new position he undertook the prepa- 

 ration of a series of text books in the Mathematics, and for 

 Borne years a large part of the time which he could spare from 

 his regular college work was given to the preparation of these 

 books. 



When Professor Henry resigned his professorship at Prince- 

 ton in order to accept the office of Secretary of the Smith - 

 sonian Institution, Professor Loomis was offered the vacant 

 chair. He went to Princeton and remained there during one 

 year, at the end of which he was induced to return again to his 

 old place in the University of New York. Here he continued 

 until I860, when he was elected to the Professorship in Yale 

 College made vacant by the death of Professor Olmsted. For 

 the last twenty-nine years of his life, he here labored for the 



