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the courts of the United States. His uni versity duties kept him at New Haven from January to June in each year, but as they only occupied two or three days a week, he often found time to visit New York for legal consultations, where he held the relation of counsel to a leading firm at the bar; and during the year, made occasional arguments, not only there and before the Supreme Court at Washington, but in distant circuits in the west or south. Before his appointment at Yale, he had accepted the position of Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Vermont, and he delivered a course of eight lectures there on that subject in April, 1881, which were stenographically reported and printed for the use of the medical class. They make a book of a hundred pages, and are marked by the clearness, discrimination, and grace of composition which characterized everything that fell from his lips. At the bar, on the platform, and as a law teacher at New Haven, whether before the college seniors, in giving them a general in troduction to the knowledge of legal institu tions, or the law school classes in explaining the intricacies of equity, he always main tained these qualities of expression. No one failed to understand him as he meant to be understood. No one heard him without being personally attracted to him. There was a charm in the way he spoke, no less than in what he said. He had that just sense of proportion, so rare in lawyer and teacher, and yet so essential to each. He did not talk over the heads of his classes. He did

not weary their attention with needless de tail, nor hide the principles he sought to put before them in a cloud of exceptions, or fog of criticism. In 1885, he went to London as Minister of the United States at the Court of St. James. Few who have filled that post have met with as warm appreciation and sincere respect from the English people; none with more. He was true to the interests of his own coun try, without offending those against vhom he might have to contend in diplomatic ne gotiations. His wit and eloquence lent bril liancy to his occasional addresses, and in social circles he was everywhere a welcome guest. Subsequently he took an important part in the Behring Sea Arbitration proceedings at Paris, as one of the counsel for the United Status. His own college, the University of Vermont, and Harvard successively conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. He needed no such testimony from Yale that he was held in honor there. He was attacked by pneumonia shortly after the opening of the winter term at Yale, and died after an illness of eight weeks, at the age of seventy-seven, but up to the time it seized him, " his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." His name will always remain associated with the work of legal instruction at New Haven, from its attachment to the Edward J. Phelps professorship in the law department of the university, a foundation established several years since under that designation, by one of his special friends, J. Pierpont Morgan of New York.