Famous men of science / [Sarah Knowles Bolton].

  • Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 1841-1916.
Date:
1926
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    day. Four hours before his death he had asked to be taken into the room where he had met and talked with so many of the renowned of earth, and where his Clem¬ entine had charmed them by her presence. And there he died. He was buried in Pere la Chaise, by his own request, under the tombstone which covered Clementine, and whose death had virtually caused his own. Plis coffin was borne by the pupils of the different colleges in which he had taught, thousands following it to the cemetery. His library of nineteen thousand volumes was purchased by the government for the Jardin des Plantes. There was no child left to bear his titles. Not only do the books of such a man live; his whole life, with its untiring energy, its promptness, its order, its unfaltering purpose, its high aims, as well as its ten¬ derness and nobility of heart, is a constant inspiration.