BY the death of Professor Benjamin Peirce, last week, the University loses its greatest light in science, and perhaps the most distinguished of its professors. Mr. Peirce had been for forty-seven years a professor in the College, -the longest time, with but one exception, that any one has held such a position. He was a born mathematician, with a special talent for astronomy as well. During the whole of his long and honorable career he was noted for his untiring energy, as well as for the brilliancy of the results at which he arrived. This year he intended to give a new course, - Cosmical Physics, - in which were to be embodied the results of his latest very remarkable speculations upon the formation of the universe. He was buried on Saturday, with all the marks of esteem which the University could show to his memory.
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