WILLIAM El M BECK. 
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Geological Society, and of the Washington Philosophical 
Society. 
In closing this sketch of the life of Mr. Eimbeck, I wish 
to quote from a little notice that was issued to the members 
of the Coast and Geodetic Survey a few weeks since: 
“A lifetime of study and research, added to charming 
natural eloquence and marked clarity in exposition, made 
Mr. Eimbeck one of the most interesting and instructive 
of companions, these distinguished qualifications being set 
off by a modesty as extraordinary as the merits it failed to 
obscure. Broad and tolerant in his sympathies, and with 
no thought of self in his generosity to the unfortunate, the 
life just closed is one that can justly claim only praise when 
it is referred to, and affection when it is recalled/’ 
Edwin Smith. 
