After several other chiefs and braves had spoken, the celebrated Black Hawk (Mucata-mish-kakaekq *) made the following speech:

"I am very glad to hear you talk of the Great Spirit. He made us both of one heart, though your skin is white and mine red. When the first white men came upon the island, we thought they were French. They were our brothers, as you are. Your heart is white, and so is mine.

"On our journey your white brothers hung round our necks such medals as the French gave us.

"The Great Spirit is pleased at our talking together to-day. "I have lived for a long time between the Mississippi and the Missouri. I like to hear you talk of them. I have got to be old.

"You are a man, and so am I; and that is the reason we talk together as brothers. I cannot shake hands with all my friends in particular; but by shaking hands with you I shall with them."

At the close of Black Hawk's speech, it was proposed by one of the warriors that Keokuk should introduce his son Mu-san-wont (Long-haired Fox) to the governor, which was done; and the attorney-general then presented him to Mr Everett's son, a child near his own age. When this was done, Keokuk said that his son was young, but he had a heart, and would not forget what passed on this occasion.

This word is variously written. The orthography of Mr S. G. Drake is here followed; Book of the Indians, Book V. p. 141.

DR BOWDITCH.

Ar a special meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held March twentieth, 1838, to take due notice of the decease of their President, the Hon. NATHANIEL BowDITCH, LL. D., F. R. S., the following Resolves were offered by Mr Edward Everett, and adopted unanimously by the Fellows of the Academy:

Whereas it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from this life Nathaniel Bowditch, President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Fellows of the Academy, at a special meeting called for the purpose of taking due notice of this melancholy event, unanimously adopt the following resolutions, expressive of their feelings on this sorrowful

Resolved, That the Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences entertain the liveliest sense of the exalted talents and extraordinary attainments of their late President, who stood preeminent among the men of science in the United States, and who, by universal consent, has long been regarded as one of the most distinguished mathematicians and astronomers of the age; that we consider his reputation as one of the most precious treasures of our common country; that we deeply deplore his loss in the fulness of his intellectual power; and that we esteem it our sacred duty to cherish his memory.

Resolved, That in addition to the loss which they have sustained, as members of this scientific body, in being deprived of their distinguished associate and head, whose name has for many years conferred honor on their institution, and whose communications are among the most valuable contents of the volumes of the Academy's Memoirs, the Fellows of the Academy, as members of the community, lament the loss of a friend and fellow-citizen, whose services were of the highest value in the active walks of life; whose entire influence was given to the cause of good principles; whose life was a uniform exhibition of the loftiest virtues; and who, with a firmness and energy which nothing could shake or subdue, devoted himself to the most arduous and important duties, and made the profoundest researches of science subservient to the practical business of life.

Resolved, That the Fellows of the Academy deeply sympathize with the family of their late President in the loss of a faithful, affectionate, and revered parent, and that the officers of the Academy be requested to address to them a letter of respectful condolence.

Resolved, That the officers of the Academy be a committee to procure a bust in marble of the late President, to be placed in the hall of the Academy, and to adopt and carry into execution such other measures as they may deem expedient, in honor of the memory of one, who among living men of science has left few equals.*

Resolved, That an attested copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the corresponding secretary to the family of the deceased, and to the various learned societies in Europe and America of which he was a member, and that they be furnished for publication in the papers of the city.

A true copy of record. — Attest,

BOSTON, March 21, 1838.

DANIEL TREADWELL, Recording Secretary.

In presenting the foregoing resolutions, the following remarks were made by Mr Everett:

I rise with diffidence, Mr Chairman, in the presence of gentlemen older than myself, and entitled on this, as on other grounds, to take precedence of me. But I rise from that impulse of feeling to which you have alluded,—an impulse which strongly prompts me to give utterance to those emotions which, in common with every member of the Academy, I experience on this occasion. It is no ordinary occasion. A mind of the highest order, an intellect gifted as are but few of the human race in the long line of time, a character of sterling purity, has passed away from among us. That chair, which he occupied and adorned, will be filled by him no longer. Our peculiar relations to the departed, as members of a scientific association of which he had so long been the chief ornament, as well as the official head, call upon us to give the first utterance to those feelings which the tidings of

In virtue of this resolution, the Hon. John Pickering was appointed by the committee to deliver a eulogy on their deceased President before the Academy, at the annual meeting in May. This duty was performed by Mr Pickering in the most satisfactory manner. A copy of his highly appropriate, eloquent, and instructive discourse was, by the unanimous vote of the Academy, requested for publication.

his loss will awaken in the bosoms of all who knew him, personally, or by reputation, in this country and in Europe.

In rising to address you, however, nothing can be farther from my purpose than to attempt a studied eulogium of the character of our lamented President. That task must be approached with an ability to which I can lay no claim; and, on the part of the highest ability, it must be undertaken with a profound reflection and study, which belong not to these first moments of bereavement.

This, however, I think I may say, without impropriety, that I do not fear being charged with exaggeration, in pronouncing Dr Bowditch, as a mathematician and an astronomer, without a superior among those whom he has left behind him in his own country, perhaps without a superior, in his peculiar departments, in the world. Not to dwell on his former published works in support of this estimate of his character, his communications to the volumes of the Academy's Memoirs, and his Practical Navigator, (a work embodying in a modest and unpretending form the results of profound researches and of methods of procedure original in him,) his translation and commentary on the Mécanique Céleste of La Place will probably be considered in after times as placing his name in the same class with the illustrious author of that work, the perfecter of the Newtonian philosophy.

I know not whether the fame of Dr Bowditch can be enhanced by stating that he reached this extraordinary scientific eminence without the advantages of education; without an instructer. Sir, he had the best instructer; he was selftaught. The best, of course, I mean for a mind like his. The advantages of early education, inestimable as they are to the majority of men, are of little moment compared with the forereaching sagacity, the irresistible struggle towards truth, the intuitive perceptions of a mind like that of our departed President. I will not deny that some advantages of education are necessary to help even such a mind over the first difficulties of scientific acquisition; (and most assuredly his advantages were of the slenderest kind;) but once helped

over these difficulties, an intellect like his mounts upward towards the highest heaven of reflection and discovery, with a keenness of vision and a strength of wing, which the aid of other intellects, or the want of such aid, can do little to assist or to retard.

But it is not my purpose, sir, with sounding phrases, to attempt to set forth his praise. Such an effort would be singularly out of keeping with his character, which was marked far more by utility than display. No small part of the labor of his scientific life was bestowed by him on the preparation of a manual for the navigator. What ocean so wide, what coast or island so remote and inaccessible, that is not more boldly crossed and more safely approached in consequence of the stores of science locked up in the tables of that volume? But how unpretending its form!

In the midst of the profoundest researches of science, he was eminently endowed with aptitude for the management of affairs and the active duties of life. You, Mr Chairman, (President Quincy,) and the honorable friend at my side, (Mr Justice Story,) can amply attest the truth of this remark. For several years you have been associated with him, as a most active and efficient member of the corporation of the university. The building in which we are assembled* has for years been the witness of the assiduity with which he devoted himself to duties to which, in the outset, few but himself were equal; which required a mind like his, but which to such a mind could have presented little of science, but the drudgery of its mechanical processes.

For many years he had been crowned with that pure fame which is the best earthly reward of meritorious effort. He stood at the head of the men of science of his own country, and was enrolled as the associate of the most distinguished literary societies of Europe. How meekly he bore these honors we are all the witnesses. They in no degree corrupted the severe simplicity of his character. He wore

That of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, of which institution Dr Bowditch was the first actuary.