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« En virtud de la amistad que existia entre Vd. y el Dr. GouLD me per- 
mito transcribirle unos parrafos de la carta de su hijo Benjamin dando 
cuenta de los ultimos momentos de su padre: 
« My father’s death came suddenly, painlessly, peacefully and found 
him ripe in years and full ofaccomplishement. His last great work the Cor- 
doba photographs, was so near completion that another hand than his can 
tie the loose ends of the strings that remain and the work will be given to 
Science and the World completed as he would have wished. 
« The end came on Thanksgiven day Nov. 26 th. J had come on from 
New-York the night before, and spent the wholle day with him, and thou- 
ght him in unusual health and spirits. In fact | sought him better tham I 
had seem him since his accident a year and half ago. We were going to 
Mary’s (1) to take our Thanksgiven day dinner, and he had already dressed 
for the occassion and I was comming, J heard a fall and them heard the 
lady who was staying with us call out to me that my father had fallen. 
I was at his side in less than a minute and was with him to the end. I do 
not know wether he had tripped or stumbled on the stairs or whether he 
had been seized with a sudden vertigo; but he had fallen to the foot of the 
stairs and was lying inconscious. He almost inmediately partialiy regained 
conciouness and with assistance walked to the sofa in the study; but I do 
not think that he ever came quite to himself so as to recognize me. A doc- 
tor was with him within a little more tham fifteen minutes. The end came 
about an hour and a half latter. The fall had fractured his skull and death 
resulted from the efussion of blood on the brain... » 
« So ended the career which I supposed is unique in the history of 
science, in the amount which was accomplished and which he lived to see 
complete or substantially complete». 
La Nacién Argentina agradecera sus servicios. [il Jmséz- 
tuto Geografico Argentino, de que fué socio honorario y funda- 
dor, honra su memoria. Los que nos hemos criado cerca de 
GouLD y de BURMEISTER, Sacerdotes maximos del culto de la 
Ciencia en la patria, inspirandonos en su ejemplo de labor infatiga- 
ble y honrados con las bondades de su amistad, no podemos dar el 
adios supremo al sabio americano sin las emociones de una des- 
pedida dolorosa y de una gratitud sincera. 
HK. S. ZEBALLOS. 
(1) La hija menor del sabio casada hace un ano, 
