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upon the Geology of Rhode Island was issued. In 1841 his first 
Report upon the Geology of New Hampshire was printed, and 
this was followed by the second in 1842. The final Report on 
the Geology of that State was published in a quarto volume in 
1844. In 1849 Dr. Jackson’s Report on the Mineral Lands of the 
United States in Michigan appeared at Washington in an octavo 
volume with maps. 
What I now have to say is said with a sincere desire to do jus- 
tice, and only justice, to the memory of our late distinguished 
associate, whose funeral services the President of this Society, one 
of the Vice-Presidents, and myself attended but a few weeks 
since. 
Not in sadness, alas, did the friends of his earlier years learn of 
the final departure of him whom they had respected and loved. 
Their mourning had been a continuous one from the moment 
when the bright intellect that drew them about him in wondering 
delight, had fallen into an eclipse, never again to manifest on 
earth its wonted power and briliancy ; and to them the news of 
his death came as a relief. The troubled spirit had at length 
passed from its frail and disordered tenement, and the peace which 
rested upon the form and features of the dead, diffused itself and 
permeated the hearts of many who had long waited the final con- 
summation. 
Still, notwithstanding the relief that thus came to the minds of 
those who had been near and dear friends of Dr. Jackson, the 
event of his death could not take place without bringing in review 
the prominent circumstances of his career, some of which could 
not be dwelt upon without a sad feeling that in some degree, at 
least, his life had been embittered by a lack of appreciation for his 
services to humanity, and by ungrateful indifference to his merits. 
That he himself was not entirely blameless for this, will not pre- 
vent the thought from being an intensely saddening one to thou- 
sands, that he to whom the world is perhaps as much indebted as 
to any one for the inexpressible relief from human anguish which 
has followed the use of ether as an anesthetic agent, was by his 
very instrumentality in its introduction, made a sufferer through 
all the subsequent years of his life. 
