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his published papers, had adequately estimated their number 

 and their value. There is nothing forth-putting about them, 

 nothing adventitious, never even a phrase to herald a matter 

 which he deemed important. 



His work as a teacher was of the same quality. He was 

 one of the best lecturers I ever heard, although, and partly 

 because, he was the most unpretending. You never thought 

 of the speaker, nor of the gifts and acquisitions which such 

 clear exposition were calling forth, — only of what he was 

 simply telling and showing you. Then to those who, like his 

 pupils and friends, were in personal contact with him, there 

 was the added charm of a most serene and sweet temper. 

 He was truthful and conscientious to the very core. His 

 perfect freedom, in lectures as well as in writing, and no 

 less so in daily conversation, from all exaggeration, false 

 perspective, and factitious adornment, was the natural ex- 

 pression of his innate modesty and refined taste, and also of 

 his reverence for the exact truth. 



It has been a pleasure to learn, from former college stu- 

 dents, who hardly ever saw him except in the lecture-room, 

 that he gave to them much the same impression of his gifts 

 and graces, and sterling worth, that he gave us who knew 

 him intimately — so transparent was he, and natural. 



With all his quick sense of justice, and no lack of occasion 

 for controversy, it seemed to cost him no effort to avoid it 

 altogether. He made no enemies, and was surrounded by 

 troops of life-long friends. When he first went abroad, in 

 1841, he was told by some near friends, who recognized his 

 promise, that a chair of Natural History in his alma mater 

 would soon have to be filled, and that he should be presented 

 as a candidate. In the winter following, the present incum- 



