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opinions and practices of the people are referred to with respect 

 and courtesy, although, as was inevitable, with plainly expressed 

 dissent. The friends of the young author surely had reason to be 

 satisfied with his first literary offspring. 



He was Fleet .Surgeon on -board the U. S. S. "Peacock" of the 

 East Indian Squadron from 1835 to 1837. This cruise resulted in 

 his second work, "A Voyage Round the World, including an 

 Embassy to Muscat and Siam in 1835, 1836 and 1837." The 

 volume bears the date 1838 and is dedicated to Dr. Samuel George 

 Morton, then Corresponding Secretary of the Academy, of which Dr. 

 Ruschenberger had been elected a correspondent in 1832. He was 

 transferred, in compliance with the By-Laws, to the class of active 

 members on his taking up his residence in the city. 



The superb opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of portions of 

 the world not then known nearly as well as they are now had been 

 improved to the .utmost. Besides the journal of an embassy from 

 the Government of the United States to the courts of Muscat, Siam 

 and Cochin-China the work embraces sketches in Zanzibar, Arabia, 

 Hindostan, Ceylon, Java, Siam, Cochin-China, China, the Sand- 

 wich Islands, Mexico and California. The style, although matured, 

 is bright and animated, and the broad spirit of toleration and fair- 

 ness of the earlier work is maintained. A growing fondness for 

 natural history and an increased familiarity with the characters of 

 animals and plants are also evident. 



The same year he published in Silliman's Journal a paper en- 

 titled " Remarks on the Barometer with a table of meteorological 

 observations made on board the U. S. Ship 'Peacock' from July 8 

 to August 17, 1837, during a passage from Peru to the United 

 States, by way of Cape Horn." 



He was married to Miss Mary Bayuton Wister, the daughter of 

 Mr. Charles J. Wister, of Germantown, October 23, 1839. Four 

 children were born to them, three daughters and one son, of whom 

 the latter, Lieut. C. W. Ruschenberger, of the Navy, alone survives. 

 Mrs. Ruschenberger died November 1, 1893. 



Dr. Ruschenberger was stationed at the Naval Rendevous in 

 Philadelphia from 1840 to 1842. He now placed himself in active 

 communication with the Academy, frequently attending the meet- 

 ings and contributing to the library and museum, his first recorded 



