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ALEXANDER WILSOFS GRAVE. 



From the veneration which I have long entertained for the memory of 

 my countryman, Alexander Wilson, the American ornithologist, and whose 

 fame, I trust, will prove more imperishable than the white marble monument 

 under which he lies interred, in the cemetery of the Swedish Church in the 

 city of Philadelphia, in the United States of America, I was induced to visit 

 his grave, and to attempt a sketch of it, which I have much pleasure in 

 forwarding to you, in the expectation that you may consider it worthy of a 

 place in "The Naturalist," as I am not aware that any illustration of it, 

 nor yet a correct copy of the inscription recorded thereon, has ever appeared 

 in this country. 



Gkorge Donaldson, Glasgow, January 5th., 1853. 



This Monument 



covers the remains of 



ALEXANDER WILSON, 



author of the 



American Ornithologt. 



He was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, 



ON THE 6th. July, 1766, 



EMIGILITED TO THE UNITED StATES 



IN THE YEAR 1794, 



AND DIED IN PHILADELPHIA, 



OF THE DYSENTERY, 



ON THE 23rd. OF AuGUST, 1813, 



AGED 47. 



"INGENIO STAT SINE MORTE DECUS." 



