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AMERICAN GEOLOGIST 
\oL. XL JANUAEY. 18!):;. No. 1 
THOMAS STERRY HUNT, M. A.. D. Sc. LL. D.. F. R. S. 
]!.V PeHMKOU FliAZEl!. 
Tile sulijt'ct of this notice expired of nil jitfection of the lieurt in 
the Park Avenue iiotel. New York cit}-. Febrnarv 12th. 1802; a 
Jiian who made his intluenee felt in many <lepartments of seienee, 
and whose hd»ors in the lii'lds of chemistry, geoloiiv. and miner- 
alogy have enriched those sciences: not only directly, but indi- 
rectly by drawinii' the attention of other master minds to man^' 
moot points concernini>' them. On his father's side, his ances- 
tors and their descendants have Udt en<liirini>' remains of their 
Avork butli in art and letters, one of the earliest of his line who 
lived in America. William Hunt, havinir been one of the founders 
of Concord. Mass. On his mother's side his lineage is enridied 
by "the gentle, mystic l^eter Sterry, and that unconipromisino- 
preacher. Thomas Sterry. who wrote the notal)le tract. The Hot 
Among the IJishops.in 1(1(17. and thai gave to New Kngland 
Consider and Thomas Sterry, the Mathematicians" ( liiographitral 
sketch of T. S. lliiiit liy .lames Douglas). Consider Sterry was a 
civil cngineei' and tiic aiitiior of text books on arithmetic and al- 
geltra in use a luiiidred years ago. Thomas Sterry IJunt wa« 
born ill Norwich. Conn.. Septendoer r)th, 18:i(>. During his early 
childhood his father moxcd to Poughkeepsie and died there wlieu 
the subject of tliis nu'inoir was but twelve years old. whereupon 
