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JAMES CLARKE WELLING. 
a thirst which in its gratification kindled yet another, and 
in this cyclic desiring and acquiring his life was passed—a 
life whose ending has brought to many of us a juster con¬ 
ception of his great learning and a feeling of personal loss 
as we become conscious that this great store of knowledge 
is beyond our enjoying. 
Feeling that the administrative work of his position was 
making too great a draught upon his time and strength, he 
asked to be relieved of his presidential duties. His request 
was granted, and with the close of last session he saw be¬ 
ginning the opportunities he had longed for—time in which 
to put in shape for publication several w T orks which lacked 
only final revision. To this task he had looked forward 
with joyous anticipations, and in sympathy with him, 
cognizant of the mines of information from which he could 
draw, many of us were impatient to herald the printed 
volumes. 
On September 4, the very eve of his intended return to 
Washington to take up this labor, there came without warn¬ 
ing the unexpected messenger of death. He received it 
with imperturbed serenity, as he received all of life’s joys 
and sorrows. It found him as did every duty—ready. 
J. H. Gore. 
