
          Horace Mann.


 [From the proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
 Vol. VIII., June 8, 1869.]


 Horace Mann was elected into the Academy on the eleventh of
 November last; and he died the same night. Devoted to Natural
 History almost from childhood, and trained to investigation in one department,
 in which he had made successful explorations in a distant
 field, he was confidently expected to add new celebrity to the distinguished 
 name he inherited, when a career of unusual scientific promise
 was thus suddenly arrested.


 He was the eldest son of the late Hon. Horace Mann (of whom it is
 unnecessary here to speak), and was born in Boston on the 25th of
 February, 1844; therefore had not completed the 25th year of his age.
 His earlier studies were pursued mainly under the immediate direction
 of his parents, with both of whom eduction was a specialty. Soon
 after his father’s death the family removed from Antioch College, just
 as Horace was prepared to enter upon the regular course. He studied
 at Concord for some time with private tutors, and then entered the
 Scientific School at Cambridge, giving himself first to Zoology, especially
 Conchology, under Professor Agassiz, and afterwards to Botany
 under Professor Gray. In 1864 he joined his friend William T.
 Brigham in a visit to the Sandwich Islands by way of the Isthmus
        