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EDWARD BROWN LEFAVOUR. 
ical Society of Cambridge, and in October, 1888, he was made 
an assistant in physics in Harvard College, which position 
he held to the date of his death. 
In May, 1889, he was attacked by rheumatic fever, which 
rapidly developed into typhoid, from which he died on May 
18, 1889. 
Never physically strong, he succumbed to an illness which 
a more robust constitution might easily have withstood. 
Through training and inheritance he was of a strongly 
religious temperament. He was always an active worker in 
the church, and in the Sunday school he acted both as 
teacher and superintendent. With this strong tendency to¬ 
wards both science and religion, the question of his vocation 
was long an open one, and it was not until his thirty-second 
year that the question appears to have been finally decided 
in favor of science. 
Without being shy, he was reserved in his manner, and 
appeared formal to those not intimately acquainted with 
him. To his intimate friends, however, he was a most 
genial and instructive companion. 
His logic was keen and his conclusions came faultlessly 
from the assumptions based on his philosophy and religion. 
He was a thinker rather than an actor, and his thinking a 
compound of clear, cold, mathematical reasoning conjoined 
with metaphysical speculation. 
In person he was of medium or slightly less than medium 
height, neither spare nor stout. He had a clear, hazel eye, 
and his black, curly hair heightened the whiteness of a 
clean-shaven face, suggestive of the churchman. A slightly 
bent form, and the head thrown forward, showed the man 
of thought rather than the man of action. Most faithful 
and diligent in all he undertook, exceedingly conscientious, 
kindly and considerate to all, he had no enemies, and his 
friends were only limited by the number of his acquaint¬ 
ances. 
Marcus Baker. 
