278 . Dr S. G. Morion. 



but ever active, always prepared for the exigencies of his 

 business duties, and ever ready to devote to profitable use 

 the scanty intervals of leisure which those duties allowed 

 him, he found time in continual participation in scientific 

 affairs, and in the proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, of which he was for thirty years a member, and 

 for many years its Vice-President and President ; and, what 

 is more, with the additional incumbrance of this general 

 scientific participation, he found time also to produce those 

 great works, the Crania Americana and Crania Ji^gyptiaca, 

 w^hich immediately placed him in the front rank of archaeo- 

 logists and ethnographers throughout the world. The ap- 

 pearance of the first-named of these volumes established 

 an era ; it opened a new department of research ; it created 

 a new science — one that has done more for the true expo- 

 sition of human history, the interpretation of the mysteries 

 of race differences and race affinities — far more than any- 

 thing ever previously effected by the pen of the annalist 

 or the wand of science. Few scientific works ever pro- 

 duced a stronger or more durable impression on the philo- 

 sophic mind, or have had a more powerful effect in direct- 

 ing the course of future investigations. 



But we have no space to write the history or attempt the 

 eulogium of Dr Morton. That task will fall to more compe- 

 tent hands ; though it could be undertaken by none who 

 knew him better or prized him more. It will be all the more 

 justly executed where there is a less lively sensibility or less 

 oppressive appreciation of his loss. Let us say of him, only, 

 that he was a good as well as great man ; estimable in all 

 his relations ; respectable in all he thought and did ; a man 

 of pure heart and blameless life ; a faithful physician ; a kind 

 friend ; a loving husband and father ; a gentle companion ; 

 an exemplary citizen. 



It is only at the hour of his death that many who knew 

 Dr Morton well, will be conscious that a great man has been 

 taken away, and a light quenched which has long shed a 

 common lustre upon the country and the world. — ( The North 

 American, Philadelphia^) 



