400 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 
distinct and widely diverging fasciculi of webs ; and their 
position in the air was such, that a line uniting them would 
have been at right angles with the direction of the breeze. 
—Magazine of Natural History. 
65. ORITUARY OF DR. JOHN GORHAM. 
Continued life, and long life, are met ts desired by most 
men, although with the inevitable condition, that we must 
see our friends fall around us; and if we siiais to old age, 
only here and there one of our early associates will remain. 
Happy indeed are we, if, by the time, when our shadows be- 
gins to lengthen towards the east, we do not find, that most 
of the friends of our youth have gone before us, and left us 
solitary mourners. These reflections, replete with interest, 
as to the present and the future, have been painfully forced up- 
on the writer, by the death of an eminent early associate and 
friend, Dr. John Gorham, M. D. of Boston. Distinguished asa 
yhysician, as an author, and as a professor of science ;—as 
man, lovely and beloved, even far beyond the limits of his 
en 
but just passing its meridian ; and we can only submit in-si- 
lence, where we cannot understand, and must not repire.— 
I may perhaps be permitted to add, that among the succes- 
sive periods of my earlier years, few are remembered with so 
much satisfaction, as that passed at Edinburgh, in 1805 and 
1806, in intimate domestic association with the lamented 
est, for a ous notice of him, bes the pen of the accom- 
plished gentleman, ites. on the funeral occasion, pronounc- 
ed his merited eulogy 
* The Rev Codman, now of Dorchester ; a ms Dr, Codman 
and the writer ~——_ the apartments of one hou: assembled at the 
same meme and that, (according to the rte x (Eatabargh,) exclusively their 
own; were associates more harm 
