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sixty, far too many for me to attempt to give their titles at this 

 time, yet none of them was so distinguished but that it received 

 as well as conferred an honor by having his name upon its rolls. 

 As a naturalist Coues will always hold the highest rank in the 

 estimation of all who are familiar with his works, and in that 

 galaxy of eminent names which sheds so great a brilliancy on the 

 scientific annals of our own land, none shall appear in the years 

 to come more lustrous than that of our late distinguished col- 

 league and friend. But the brilliant mind no longer teems with 

 thoughts of earth, and the hand that executed its commands lies 

 motionless and we, who are drawing near to that shining portal 

 through which he has so lately passed, and from whose farther 

 side no steps are ever retraced by any one of mortal birth, may 

 never look upon his like again, whose pen was the ' pen of a 

 ready writer,' fit instrument to convey and render permanent the 

 eloquence of thought, beauty of diction, and facility of expression, 

 of Nature's illustrious Disciple and Interpreter. 



