meetings of the American Association; but those who were present at the second meeting in New Haven, will remember the zeal and energy with which Dr. Hare, in an off-hand speech, fluent and animated, assailed the views of Mr. Redfield, who was all the while a quiet and silent listener. The responses of the latter were always made by the pen, and never on public occasions by the tongue. In his family and among his friends, Dr. Hare was very kind, and his feelings were generous, amiable, and genial, although occasionally his manner was abrupt, from absence of mind, occasioned by his habitual abstraction and absorption in thought; his mind was ever active, and conversation would sometimes seem to awaken him from an intellectual reverie. He had high colloquial powers, but, to give them full effect, it was necessary that they should be aroused by a great and interesting subject, and especially if it assumed an antagonistic form. He would then discourse with commanding ability, and his hearers were generally as willing to listen as he was to speak. He was a man of unbending rectitude, and a faithful friend both in prosperity and adversity. His frame was robust, powerful, and ample in structure, and of strong muscular development, having been invigorated in earlier years by skilful training; and, had there been occasion, he would have made a formidable physical antagonist. His head was large and of noble model. No stranger could meet him without being impressed by a figure of such grandeur, and a head and features so remarkable. Dr. Hare was an ardent patriot, who loved his country and cherished its institutions, not for office or emolument, which he never sought or received, but from pure and lofty motives. He was of the school of Washington, an enthusiastic admirer of that great man, a Federalist, while that primeval party had a name and retained vitality; and when it passed, by an imperceptible transition, into another form, he was found among the Whigs. He occasionally wrote upon the great political and financial questions which agitate the public mind. These discussions, like all his writings, were always marked by vigorous thought, large views, and elevated patriotism. Neither was he so exclusively a man of science as to ignore the charms of literature. His particular friends know that his philosophy was sometimes softened by listening to the muses, and he indulged in poetical composition with good success. Dr. Hare was one of the few life members of the Smithsonian Institution, to which he gave, soon after he resigned his professorship, all his chemical and physical apparatus, which has thus become the property of the nation. RICHARD HARLAN, M.D. DR. RICHARD HARLAN, an American physician, but better known to the public as author of works on Natural History, was born in Philadelphia, September 19th, 1796. He received his preparatory education at the best schools in his native city, and subsequently became a pupil of the celebrated Dr. Joseph Parrish. Previous to his receiving his medical degree, in 1817, he made a voyage to Calcutta, as surgeon of an East India ship. Besides his private practice in Philadelphia, he was a prominent member of the Academy of Medicine, and, in 1822, was elected Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Philadelphia Museum, where he delivered lectures on that science, which evinced great research and industry. In 1832, after the appearance of the Asiatic cholera in Montreal, he was appointed, together with Drs. Meigs and Jackson, to proceed to that city, and obtain all possible information concerning the best mode of treating that terrible disease. The presumption is, that the labors and suggestions of this commission contributed, in an eminent degree, to diminish the sufferings endured as well as the mortality experienced, when that terrible scourge subsequently made its appearance in Philadelphia. In 1825, Dr. Harlan published his Fauna Americana, or Catalogue of American Mammiferous Animals. In 1835, he collected most of his essays which had previously appeared on medical subjects and on natural history, and published them, with various additions, in a volume entitled Medical and Physical Researches, which, with his former volume, |