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cious manner of Mr. Schweinitz, into scientific order, 
on a plan to embrace the previous collection of the 
Academy, secured, as far as practicable, from the depra- 
dations of insects, and easy of access for the purposes of 
research and comparison. But the direct legacy of Mr. 
Schweinitz is, probably, not the only favour which is 
due to his scientific character and labours. It has been 
remarked that our institution owes to members of his 
community, a greater portion of its valuable collections 
in different departments, than to any other equal num¬ 
ber of individuals, and it is reasonable to suppose that 
his example, as a cultivator of science, has, in no small 
degree, determined the preference of those over whom 
he so long, and so beneficially, exercised an influence. 
Such, may I repeat, was the life, and such the la¬ 
bours of our departed associate ; a life which humanity 
may contemplate with a calm delight; labours which 
science may review with a noble satisfaction. 
With a laudable emulation of all the excellencies 
which had, before his own day, given lustre to his name, 
and a clear perception of the truth that the virtue of • 
ancestors sheds no honour on any but the virtuous of 
their offspring; with a zeal for the acquisition of know¬ 
ledge, which, springing from an innate law of his being, 
afforded to his understanding that pure gratification, 
which, by another law of his being, knowledge alone 
could impart; with a benevolent desire to communicate 
whatever of delight the investigations of science and 
literature had infused into his own heart; with a love 
for the beauties of nature, imbibed almost in infancy, 
