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[Hammond. 



4. Our friends who have passed away, 



Dr. W. A. Hammond, New York City. 



" Plena fuit vobis omni concordia vita; 

 Et stetit ad fiuem longa tenaxque fides." 



In reply, Surgeon-General Hammond said : 



Before coming on here I was selected by the members of 

 a Scotch society to attend a dinner which was to be given 

 upon the anniversary of the birth or death of Robert Burns, 

 and I was requested to post myself thoroughly upon Scotch 

 medical men ; that I would be required to respond to the 

 toast, "The Medical Men of Scotland." I did so. To my 

 great disgust I found I had made a mistake in the dinner; 

 that instead of coming off on Tuesday, it came off on 

 Wednesday; so that I come here rather filled with ideas 

 concerning Scotch doctors. Mr. Price said that I would 

 not be expected to make a mournful speech ; that I could 

 respond in the best vein possible. I think w r e will all agree 

 that we have much more regard for the man who makes us 

 laugh than the man who makes us cry, and crying would be 

 greatly out of place this evening. 



For the history of the dead of the American Philosophical 

 Society, you have only to think for one moment of those 

 remarkable men who have passed away, who have given 

 their lives to science, and were at the same time members of 

 this Society. Of them I have nothing to say, because they 

 are familiar to you. But there are three or four men with 

 whom I was well acquainted, and first in regard to my 

 old friend, Charles B. Trego. I knew him thirty or forty 

 years ago. My very first idea, of any scientific impetus was 

 received from that man. I saw him frequently, and he 

 treated me as a father would treat a son, and the amount of 



