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John C. Warren, of Boston. In August, 1827, he took his doctor's 

 degree, and soon after commenced the practice of medicine in his native 

 place, and had a professional life of a little more than forty-five years. 



He was a hard student, and ever enthusiastic in the jxirsuit of knowl- 

 edge. Not confining himself to medicine and the allied sciences alone, 

 he extended his investigations in a great variety of directions. He 

 undertook the grinding and polishing of the lenses for a telescope. 

 He experimented in the qualities of chloroform and ether as anaes- 

 thetics. Some fossil bones, which came into his possession, led him to 

 the study of comparative anatomy. He calculated the orbits of com- 

 ets ; he engraved ; he made for himself a microscope ; was the first in 

 this country to follow Daguerre in his remarkable discovery ; was a 

 student of Meteorology ; and after he was sixty-five years of age 

 learned the German language, that he might translate a work of Hal- 

 lier on the germs of disease. 



He was highly esteemed in the community as a citizen and a man. 

 He was two years a member of the Common Council, and its President ; 

 a member of the Legislature. He was a trustee of the Putnam free 

 school, a director in the Public Library, a Fellow of the American 

 Academy of Science, a trustee of the Peabody Fund in Newburyport, 

 for some years a member of the committee for examining the Cambridge 

 Observatory, for two years President of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society, and also a member of several other scientific bodies. He 

 was appointed by Mr. George Peabody one of the trustees of the 

 fund appropriated for the promotion of science and useful knowledge 

 in the county of Essex, and since its incorporation one of the " Trus- 

 tees of the Peabody Academy of Science." 



He was simple, earnest, intelligent, and a close student of nature. 

 He led a pure life and one of untarnished integrity, and in all his 

 transactions was truthful and honest. 



The life of Dr. Perkins presents a beautiful example of a critical 

 scholar, yet a devout Christian believer ; a man of science, yet a man 

 of God ; a friend of progress, and yet holding fast to all that was 

 good and true; a physician by profession, but a friend and helper 

 by choice. 



The Hon. James Savage was born in Boston on the 13th of July, 

 1784. His father was Habijah Savage, of Boston, and his mother 

 Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of John Tudor, also of that city. Mr. 

 Savage was descended from Major Thomas Savage, an early settler of 

 Boston, and Faith Hutchinson, daughter of the famous Ann Hutchin- 



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