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Download or read book Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 10 Our late associate, Francis Alger, son of Cyrus Alger, who married Lucy Willis, was born in Bridgewater in this State, March 8, 1807. He had one brother named Cyrus (now dead) and six sisters, five of whom are now living. Francis, in youth, was not studious, and had only a common school education. His taste for study commenced in 1824, when his atten tion was first drawn to the science of Mineralogy. To his love for that science he attributed his after progress in general learning and scientific acquirements. One branch of Natural History leads to oth ers, and Francis soon found himself engaged in the study of shells and plants, first the fossils and then their analogues in the living world. He began to collect good scientific books, and his library Shows how extensively he entered into the study of other branches of Natural History But it was to his first love, Mineralogy, with its proper physiology, Chemistry, that he devoted his chief attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.