The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-03
PRESCOTT. THE HISTORIAN

The Salem Mass. Register says:
"We have heard that the accident which de-
prlyed Prescott of the use of one eye and subse-
quently impaired the power vision in the other
was occaslOned by blow from crust of bread
thrown across the room by fellow-student in Com
mons Hall, near the close of his college career
inns seeming calamity changed the whole current
OF his life, which he intended to devote to legal
pursuits, and finally led him into that brilliant
career as a historian, in which he has achieved a
word-renowned honor for himself and his coun-
try"
correspondent of the New York Eveninq Post
says
learn, from private source, that an hour be-
fore the fatal stroke he had been conversng with
friends. Having retired to another room, his aman-
uensis after heard him grOaninp and on burst-
ing open the door found him with his head thrown
back entirely unconscious, and in about an hour
after he died. The previous premoniton which he
lew months snee @ had a @ tS I'd bs
as if they feared for another meeting on earth
But this circumstance by means diminished the
poignancy of their grief, in any way supplies
his place, for whom the greater solicitude and love
were felt on account of his own precarious situa-
tion.
six volumes were designed three of which have
been published part of the fourth is now written,
and the other two will probably fall to the hands of
some other master ofSpansh history to complete,
missed and the line clearly defined where he finished
and another began.
At the. meeting of the New York Historical So
ciety on Tuesday evening, warm eulogies of Mr..
Prescott were delivered by President King of Co.
lumbia College, Rev. DR.. Dewitt and Hon. George
Bancroft and appropriate resolutions were passed
Prot. William G. Bond, whose death has been an
nounced, has long been known as the Director of
the Observatory at Cambridge. Mr.. Bond was 60
years of age; born at Portland, Me-; early ap-
prenticed to matchmaker, and since 1889 Astrono-
mer at Cambridge. One of the earliest Observa-
tories In this country was established by him for
private use at Dorchester, Mass. In 1915 he visi-
ted Europe, commissioned by the Corporation Of
Harvard College to examine the foreign Observa-
tories, and select plan and instruments for the
College In 1888, he received an appointment from
the General Government to conduct the astronomi-
cal and meteorological observations during the
Exploring Expedition of Com. Wilkes; and in 1889
was appointed to the Directorship of the Cambridge
institution which post he held at the time of his
death.
To his practical skill observers owe piece of
mechanism called the "spring governor" by which
time is visibly measured to small fraction of a
second. To the same skill in applying scientific
knowledge to mechanical means was in large part
owing what is known in Europe as the "Amercan
method" of recording observations by electro mag
netism.
Professor Bond also discovered the eighth satel-
lite of Saturn, after sixty years of barrenness in
that region, just two days before it was seen by
Lassell, of Liverpool, with his great Newtonian
reflector. Captain Smyth says in his Cycle of Mr..
Bond
The elder Bond, on one occasion, saw an eclipse
of the first satellite of Jupiter in the shadow of the
third, both satellites being off the planet, and both
shadows on, circumstance necessarily of rare oc-
currence, and probably never seen before.