ADDRESS OF PROF. ASA GRAY. 



When" we think of the associate and friend whose death 

 this Society now deplores, and remember how modest and re- 

 tiring he was, how averse to laudation and reticent of words, 

 we feel it becoming to speak of him, now that he is gone, 

 with much of the reserve which would be imposed upon us 

 if he were living. Yet his own perfect truthfulness and nice 

 sense of justice, and the benefit to be derived from the con- 

 templation of such a character by way of example, may be 

 our warrant for reasonable freedom in the expression of our 

 judgments and our sentiments, taking care to avoid all exag- 

 geration. 



Appropriate and sincere eulogies and expressions of loss, 

 both official and personal, have, however, already been pro- 

 nounced or published; and among them one from the gov- 

 ernors of that institution to which, together with our own 

 Society, most of Professor Wyman's official life and services 

 were devoted, — which appears to me to delineate in the few- 

 est words the truest outlines of his character. In it the 

 President and Fellows of Harvard University " recall with 

 affectionate respect and admiration the sagacity, patience 

 and rectitude which characterized all his scientific work, his 

 clearness, accuracy and conciseness as a writer and teacher, 



(9) 



