Dunglison.] "70 [October. 



Rives, where, surrounded by his estimable rehitives, he gradually 

 sank, and died on the 10th of April, at the advanced age of eighty- 

 six. 



Few persons have contributed more to the literature of the period 

 than Professor Tucker. He himself estimated the amount of his 

 more fugitive productions, — about one-half of which were anonymous 

 and gratuitous, — at ten thousand pages. His talents were at one period 

 directed greatly towards the composition of works of fiction, and he 

 occasionally wooed the muse. When at the White Sulphur Springs of 

 Virginia, in his extensive journeyings in the summer before his 

 death, he composed measured lines, upwards of one hundred in num- 

 ber, entitled " Life's Latest Pleasures," the manuscript of which he 

 gave to the writer, before setting out on his last journey to the South, 

 in which, to use his own language, he casts a look on the future, 



"And midst old age's cares and pains, 

 Asks what enjoyment yet remains." 



His forte was not, however, the imaginative. It is as a successful 

 and equitable writer on great questions of politics and political 

 economy, and of intellectual philosophy, that he will take his place. 

 His Biography of Jefferson, and his History of the United States 

 may, indeed, be regarded less as narratives of occurrences than 

 views of great national and political questions, as they from time to 

 time arose, logically discussed, and conveyed in language which has 

 usually the merit of great terseness and perspicuity. 



During his residence in Philadelphia, Professor Tucker was a 

 frequent attendant on the meetings of this Society, and at the time 

 of his death was a member of the Board of Officers and Council. 



Obituary Notice of Dr. George W. Bethune. 



Dr. George W. Bethune was born in New York on the 18th of 

 March, 1805. The name Bethune was originally French, and was 

 that of the celebrated Due de Sully. Some of Dr. Bethune's an- 

 cestors must have migrated to Scotland, where the name was and is 

 often pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, and from it 

 were corrupted the names of the families of Beaton and Betton, who 

 have the same heraldic bearings as Bethune, or Bethune' as it was 

 pronounced by the family of the subject of this notice. 



Dr. Bethune's parents were born in Scotland. His fathex-, Mr. 

 Divie Bethune, removed to New York in 1792, where he became a 



