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It was in connection with the Academy, however, that nearly all of 

 his extra professional work was accomplished. He was but little in- 

 terested in administrative affairs, and was reluctant to accept official 

 positions the duties of which might interfere with his favorite stud- 

 ies. He served as Corresponding Secretary in 1867, and was a 

 member of the Council at intervals from 1876 until his death. He 

 also served on the Library Committee. He was instrumental in 

 founding the Anthropological Section and was its Director until 

 his death. He contributed his last scientific communication to one 

 of its meetings. The character and extent of the work accom- 

 plished in the Academy and elsewhere will be considered by com- 

 petent judges of its value. 



Dr. Allen was married to Miss Julia Colton, Dec. 29, 1869. His 

 widow, a son and a daughter survive him. He found rest and re- 

 laxation from his professional and scientific work in literature, mu- 

 sic, and the sympathy and affection of a devoted domestic circle. 

 His summers were spent at his home in Sciasconset on Nantucket 

 Island, whence he would return in the fall invigorated by the out- 

 door life of a lover of nature. 



In his intercourse with his professional b re them and his scientific 

 associates, Dr. Allen was always helpful and appreciative. A certain 

 reserve and dignity of bearing gave assurance of intellectual force 

 which was fully realized on a close acquaintance with the man and 

 his work. He was precise and careful in his statements, charitable 

 in his judgment, and generous in his dealings with the poor, the 

 weak and the sick. His religious convictions were earnest and 

 definite. He was brought up as a Hicksite Friend, but later in life 

 he accepted the doctrines of Trinitarian Christianity, and, in the 

 spring of the present year, he was baptized according to the rites of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church. 



In the summer of 1895 he had an attack of indisposition which 

 he seems to have regarded as a premonition of the affection which, 

 two years later, proved fatal. Last April he underwent an opera- 

 tion for appendicitis from which he survived only through the 

 prompt action of his physicians in the administration of stimulants 

 and the employment of artificial respiration. His summer at Scias- 

 conset, seemed, as usual, to have strengthened his vitality. He re- 

 sumed his professional work on his return to Philadelphia, and made 

 frequent and sometimes prolonged visits to the Academy where he 

 completed some anthropological investigations, the results of which 



