horoughly versed in the Greek, and
familiar with the original works which have given to that tongue the
first place among human dialects. The German he read with facility,
and had pursued his favorite studies in the masters of its profound
learning. Of French and Italian he was not ignorant. Music, both as a
science and an art, was his delight and recreation. In the arts of
painting and sculpture his information was liberal and his taste said
to be excellent. Morals and politics he had studied in their theory,
and in the history of the world. His acquaintance with civil history
was among the most extraordinary of his attainments. The beautiful in
Nature, in life, or in art or literature, few men have so exquisitely
enjoyed or so justly appreciated.

"Thus, the principal elements of a perfect mind seem to have been
singularly united and harmonized in him,--exactness of knowledge,
liberal learning, and true taste."

Bred from infancy in the Church of England, Dr. Oliver continued to
the end a faithful member of that communion, and few persons have had
a firmer faith in the sublime truths of revealed religion. It was no
less to his deeply religious and truthful spirit than to his innate
love of right that may be ascribed that regard for things sacred, that
singular modesty, that unfailing courtesy, and the high sense of
personal honor that distinguished him. It had been his desire, at a
late period of his life, to become a candidate for Holy Orders, a step
for which his ripe theological scholarship and his critical knowledge
of Greek and Hebrew had already prepared him, but his age deterred
him.

Dr. Oliver had published little. Besides the treatise on Physiology
already mentioned, there are a few pamphlets containing addresses
delivered on various occasions, the most important of which are one
before the New Hampshire Historical Society in 1836, and that before
the college at the time of his induction into the professorship of
Moral and Intellectual Philosophy.

Among his medical manuscripts may be mentioned an unfinished work on
General Pathology, which, had he lived to complete, would have added
to his reputation as a medical author. Among his papers were also a
few unpublished addresses and a few short and fragmentary poems, the
effusions of his earlier years, all characterized by that elegance of
style and fine poetic taste and feeling that marked their author.

A member of many learned literary and medical soci