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mineralogy, metallurgy, aiid mining. This took him to the 
ficole des Mines at Paris; to Heidelberg; and in 1866 to the 
Bergakademie founded by Werner in Freiberg, Saxony. 
He and the present writer, whose families as well as- them- 
selves had always been on the most cordial terms, attended 
at the same time the same University, subsequently occupied 
adjoining tables in Booth and Garrett's laboratory, and found 
themselves again fellow students at Freiberg. 
In addition to this parallelism of career the very slight dif- 
ference in the spelling of their family names and the usual 
confusion in Saxony between B and P led to many humorous 
mistakes of identity in which then as now the memorialist re- 
garded as his the gain from such an error. After returning to 
the United States, professor Frazier engaged for a short time 
during 1869-70 in the business of sugar refining, but finding 
business affairs distasteful, accepted the combined chairs of 
mining and metallurgy' in Lehigh University from 1870 to 
1880. ■ 
His development of the instruction in these subjects was so 
masterly that it became necessary to separate them. In 1880 
he assumed charge of the instruction in mineralogy and metal- 
lurgy, which ultimately met the same fate, and professor 
Frazier finally confined his personal instruction entirely to the 
subject of mineralogy which, as he interpreted its duties, was 
as much as one man could attend to. 
All this is mere statistics and gives no insight into what the 
subject of this sketch was actually doing to fulfill the duties of 
his chairs according to his own high standard. No efifort was 
shirked, no self sacrifice avoided, which could make his courses 
more perfect. But working thus to satisfy his conscience he 
seemed to strive equally to keep his labors, and even his high 
attainments, from the knowledge of the world ; in which latter 
effort he was fortunately not so successful. 
It is interesting to inquire, what were the qualities which 
won the love and respect of all, possessed by this gentleman who 
never exercised any but a healthy and ennobling influence on his 
fellow creatures ; whose character the present writer, and 
doubtless many another, has often summoned before his mind 
as an inspiration when the true path of duty seemed difficult to 
find. 
