A Memoir of William Maclure, Esq: Late President of the Academy of Natural ...
A Memoir of William Maclure, Esq: Late President of the Academy of Natural ...
Samuel George Morton, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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From New Haven Mr. Maclure proceeded to New York, and embarked for Mexico. Time and distance, however, could not estrange him from that solicitude which he had long cherished for the advancement of education in his adopted country; and from his re- mote residence he kept a constant correspondence with his friends in the United States, among whom was the author of this memoir. 'Mr. Say* died in 1834, at New Harmony; and Mr. Maclure was thus deprived of one his oldest and firmest friends. The los...s seemed for a time to render him wavering as to his future plans; but con- vinced, on reflection, that his educational projects in the West could be no longer fostered or sustained, he resolved to transfer his library at New Harmony to the Academy of Natural Sciences. This rich do- *Mr. Say was one of the founders of the Academy; and among the last acts of his life, he provided for the further utility of the institution by requesting that it should become the depo- sitory of his books and collections.
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