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II. INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS IN EDWARDS' OB-
SERVATIONS AND THE EDITOR'S NOTES.

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THE references to Dr. Edwards' work are made to the original paging,
which is preserved in the margin of the present edition. The other refe-
rences (distinguished by the letter N) are to the numbers of the Editor's
Notes.

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OBITUARY NOTICE OF PROFESSOR PECK.

IT being an established custom of the Massachusetts Historical Society to notice the decease of its members, and to give some account of their life and character, it was thought that this could not be better done, in the present instance, than by copying the following article, published in the Boston Daily Advertiser of the 8th of October, 1822; which is understood to have been written by a distinguished citizen and scholar, whose undeviating friendship and kindness, for many years, brightened the existence of our departed associate. Some notes are here added by a member of the Society, to whom the deceased was known, and by whom he was respected and beloved from early life.

DIED at Cambridge on the 3d instant, WILLIAM DANDRIDGE PECK, Esq. aged 59, Massachusetts Professor of Natural History in Harvard University.* Mr. Peck enjoined on his surviving friends not to permit any ceremonious interment, or any of those publick testimonies of respect, by which the members of that seminary are accustomed, very properly, to express their regret at

* Mr. Peck was the son of Mr. John Peck, and was born in Boston, May 8th, 1763. His mother, whose original name was Jackson, died when this son was seven years old. Though this bereavement occurred to him at so early an age, he felt it keenly, and cherished her memory with fond affection, through the whole course of his life. It is not improbable that the event contributed, with other circumstances, to cast the shade of melancholy over the mind of the son, which at times required the best influence of his friends to disperse. At the commencement of the siege of Boston, in 1776, the family removed to Braintree, where the subject of this memoir for a time pursued his studies under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Weld; and removing afterwards to Lancaster, he was placed under the care and tuition of the Rev. Mr. Ward of Brookfield, by whom he was prepared for admission to the College, and by whom he was ever after esteeined and beloved. 22

VOL. X.

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