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papers upon fossils, and still better by his great work upon the indigenous races of America.
He is a man of science in the best sense; admirable both as regards his knowledge and his activity.
He is the pillar of the Philadelphia Academy.
The chemists and physicists, again, form another utilitarian class of men in this country.
As with many of them purely scientific work is not their sole object, it is difficult for an outsider to distinguish between the clever manipulators and those who have higher aims. .
The mathematicians have also their culte, dating back to Bowditch, the translator of the ‘Mecanique celeste,’ and the author of a work on practical navigation.
He died in Boston, where they are now erecting a magnificent monument to his memory.
Mr. Peirce, professor at Cambridge, is considered here the equal of our great mathematicians.
It is not for me, who cannot do a sum in addition, to pretend to a judgment in the matter.1
You are familiar, no doubt, with the works of Captain Wilkes and the report of his journey
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