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expressed his thoughts. There was something clear and 
straightforward in his words that made me feel that the 
man’s whole character was transparent. While he was a 
student he was interested in many curious unusual ques- 
tions, but his special attention was then given to the exact 
sciences. In these his progress was such that he stands 
out in my mind and memory as one of the foremost of all 
those who have come under my instruction in these thirty- 
five years. It was to mea source of regret, at the time, 
that he should shortly after graduation turn away from 
the exact to the natural sciences, for I felt sure that there 
was a bright career before him in the mathematics. 
“ But although his thoughts were from that time mainly 
in the subjects chosen as his life studies he never forgot 
his early love. He was continually interested in questions 
in the exact sciences, and in working out curious problems. 
I have before mea roll recently made by him, and illustrat- 
ing this trait of his character; one upon which he must 
have spent much time and thought. Init he dealt graphi- 
cally with prime numbers, constructing a geometrical 
modification of the Sieve of Eratosthenes. He exhibits to 
the eye inaclear and beautiful way all the prime numbers 
and the divisors of all odd numbers below 51,000. In all 
such curious problems he seems to have been interested 
to the end of his life.” 
The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences on 
December 28th, 1887, directed that this minute be entered 
upon its records, and that a copy be sent to his family: 
“This Academy having learned with sorrow of the sud- 
den death of Oscar Harger, a member and late Secretary, 
desires to put on record an expression of the high esteem 
and respect in which he was held. 
“In his death the Academy has lost a zealous and earnest 
toiler and co-laborer in scientific pursuits, one whom we 
all respected for his ability and faithful services, and whom 
many of us, who knew him best, had learned to love, for 
his amiable disposition and the sterling virtues of his 
character.” 
