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Mr. Alger was one of the founders, and always an active member, 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, and he presented to that 

 Society the first specimens of minerals that entered its cabinets. Mr. 

 Alger was a most worthy and benevolent man, zealous in promoting 

 the interests of religious institutions, full of patriotism and public spirit. 

 His manners were gentle and retiring, and it was with great diffidence 

 that he ever spoke in public. He was kind and considerate, and more 

 apt to apologize for the shortcomings of others than to censure or 

 expose them. 



George Hayward, M. D,, the son of Dr. Lemuel Hayward, of 

 Boston, died suddenly, of apoplexy, October 7, 1863, at the age of 

 seventy-two. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1809, and also 

 received a Bachelor's degree at Yale College. Choosing the profession 

 of his father, he received his medical degree at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, in 1812. vSubsequently he had the advantage, at that time 

 rare, of visiting Europe, and of profiting by the instructions of Aber- 

 nethy, Astley Cooper, and their contemporaries in England and France. 

 On his return, he established himself in his native city, and succeeded 

 to the practice of his father. With this, and an eai'ly election as Phy- 

 sician to the Almshouse, he soon gained a high professional position. 

 He became a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1816, 

 shared zealously in its councils during his long career, delivered its 

 Annual Address in 1837, and was chosen its President in 1852, which 

 office he held for several years. He was chosen Assistant Surgeon to 

 the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was one of the Surgeons-in- 

 Chief from 1838 to 1851, — a service of twenty-five years, — and one 

 of the Consulting Surgeons till his death. " The history and records of 

 the Hospital bear enduring testimony to his faithful and devoted labors 

 in all these relations," say the Trustees ; who on his retirement com- 

 plunented him with a request that he would sit for his bust in marble. 

 From 1835 to 1849 he was Professor of Surgery in the Medical De- 

 partment, and in 1852 was chosen a member of the Corporation, of 

 Harvard University. He became a Fellow of this Academy in 1818. 

 He was an active member of the New England Linnaean Society ; 

 was one of the founders of the Boston Society of Natural History, and 

 its first Vice-President, and always maintained a lively interest in its 

 welfare. For many years he was President of the Boston Athenaeum, 

 and was ever a liberal patron of science, art, and all liberal culture. 

 When the Medical Commission of Massachusetts was established, to 



