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celestia unaanai cs. For, et it e remembered, thalilae hi est speculation and proos in his deparimens y Such men a Dumas, Faraday, and illiam Thomson, and them Oint in this directioim ii

does no more as et perhaps than Oint, but some olus may live to see resurgiam inscribe ove Samuel

member hin than to have Converse Willa lae rest.

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ruliat is o osten and sorii ut sal of the mollier os remarhable men She was his firs and est Amn ater, nil in many senses his last for her influence overthim continue through lila. George ad a in brother in die in early life and we cannothel referringo his l)eing one o tWins, omethingo that wondectes acuit of attractin an Ming personalty love by thos about im, hich Was oneo his strongestos it Was ne of his most vinning Powers. He Was always son o books, and of mn, the play of the ind. He est themigii Schoo atfifteen an too to medicine; ut he oon singledout hemistry, and unde tiae late enneth emp, an our distinguislae Professor o Mauria medica, himself a rst-Clas chemist, he acquired such nowledge a to hecome assistant in the labo rator of Dr. Thomas Gratiam, the Professor os Chemistr in Universit College, an nowmaster of the Mint. Sol e came ut o a thorough and good school, and ad the best of masters. He then too me degre of Μ. D. an beCame a Lecture o Chemistry, in What is no calle theextr academica schoo os medicine, ut hicli inou da was satisfied illi the titie of private lec

have been long a mos successsu an popularteacher ut generat inebi health, an a disea se

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in the an hie otia requirin partia amputation os the laol, and recurrent attach os a serious in in

ove matter Wil not oon orget. It was a lesson to every one of What true goodnes os nature, elevated

As s wel known Dr Wilson a appoin te in I 855 to the newly-constitute Professorahi os Technology, and to the Curatorshi of the Industriat Museum. The expenditur of thought, o ingenui , os researchon man emen the expenditure, in aword, os himsel involvet in originatin and giving

t ear, have hortene his life and withdra n his pre-ctous an quite singula poWers of illustratin and Goming, and in the ighest sense, sanctifyin and blessiri science, sto thi Which seeme a V tous his proper sphere. Indeed, in the opinio ossonae good judges the institution o suci a trair at

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all, and speciali in connexion illi a Universitysuch as urs, and the attachin to it the conductos a rea Museum of the Industria Aris, Wassonaewhat hastily gone into, an might have illi ad vantage alte for an obtaine a litile more consideratio an forethought. Be inis as it may,

foui malitia a Class, whicli as always increa sing, and wliich was atriis larges at his death V have est urselves no space to spea os Dr. Wilson a an author, as an academi an popularlecturer, as a member os leariae societies, as a mano exquisite iterar power an sancy, and as a Citi-Zen os rema rhable public acceptation. Tlais must come stom some more Caresul, an fuller an more

os life os picturesque ouches, and of realigation os the an and of his times, an is moreΟVer, th roughi scienti sic, containing amon other discus stolas by far the est account os the great water controvers Dona the Cavendisti potnt of vlew. His

tation to the wori os the me lineaments mann 2I

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o life an inmost though and heroi sufferings, aswellis of the oble scientific chievements of that Strong, truthlal, cour eous, an altogether admirabieman, and me discoverer - a genuine solio e of Joh Hunter. Jo

ness is, e belleve, as perfectis monogram a exiSis,

factum ad unoem A may b seen isto theserem kS, e regar iam notis much as, like Edward Forbes, a reat observeri an quie generalizer, Or

like Samue Brown a discovere an philosopi ea properi so called - though, as we have Sald, he had Enough of these two men' prim qualitiestia underet M and resisti and admire them His

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great qualit la in makin me love ascerta inedan recorde truth, scientificorum specialty hemade his reade an heare en F fatis. He illuminate the Book of Nature a the did the missat osold. His nature a so thoroughi composite, o insuli hamion with itself that notone lacuit could orcare to aet without cassin in ali heminers to Oin insuli chorus To ahe an illustratio hom his oWnscience, his faculties interpenetrate an intectused themselves into ach other, a the gases do by acla of thei nature Thus it Was that verybod under-stoo and like and was impressed by him he

every Ction, every letter he rote, ver lecture hedelivered his last expiring math, instinc With the

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one constant idea that ali truth, ali goodness, allwience allaeauty, at gladness, are but the expressiono the in and wil and hear of the rea Suprenae. An this, in his case, a no mysticism, eister asit meret a belles in revealed religion thoughis mancherished an belleve in his Bible more firmi and cordiali thanae it was the assured belles, O purulyscientific rouniis that God is incleed an in very truth ali in ali that, o use the sublime adaptationby Oor Crazy mari, the whole creation visibi and invisibie spirituat an materiai, verything that has

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The common sim, the air, the inies, To him inere openin Paradise.

The were to im ali the more exquisite, at themore altogether lovely these Pentland and the Braid Hilis, and ali his accustomedirives an places theserura solitudes an pleasant villages an sarms, and the countenances of his frietas, and the Clear, pure, radiant face of science and of nature, ereri him all