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hear these from one, whose long intimacy qualifies him 

 to speak worthily of such a subject. Yet it is in place 

 here, while we note his departure, to hold up his exam- 

 ple as our model. He was the warm and active friend 

 of this association, availing himself of every means of 

 contributing to its advancement, and though considera- 

 bly the senior of those participating in its various duties, 

 coming to their aid with all the interest and enthusiasm 

 of the most animated, and in his last excursions in his 

 summer retirement seeking to add to our collections. 

 Were he now among us enjoying the health of a few 

 years since, I doubt not, he would not only approbate 

 the enlarged policy which has been recommended, but 

 be among the first to lend his personal aid to secure it 

 success, and anew employ the pen, he knew so well to 

 wield in literary or scientific or pious purposes. But he 

 is gone — and though departed let his example live in our 

 memories and be embalmed in our affections and animate 

 us to perseverance, — let us seek to imbibe his spirit and 

 catch his falling mantle. And happy, thrice happy shall 

 we be, if favored with his years we may look back on a 

 life so usefully employed. Happy if, as in his case, in 

 our departure, science shall bless us, our country shall 

 bless us, Christianity shall bless us. Christianity? Yes, 

 he, the scholar, the man of science, drank deep, at her 

 perennial fountain. Her principles were the guide of 

 his life, the stay and solace of his soul.* And his last 

 days illustrated her heavenly triumph over all that is 

 trying and harrowing in the separation of the ties which 

 bind us to life, and in going down to " the valley of the 

 shadow of death." This was his language to me a few 

 months previous to his death: "I have looked with 

 calmness on the approaching event. It has excited no 



cisely ascertained, yet there is reason to believe it took place many years 

 since. For about twenty years he has occupied the place of an Elder in the 

 Reformed Dutch Church, and at the time of his death was one of the most 

 esteemed and influential members and elders of the 2d Dutch Church, Al- 



