162 Tribute to the Memonj of 



*• Mihi Galba, Otho, Vitellius, nee beneficio nee inju- 

 ria eogniti*." 



The remainder of this paper will be given in the next 

 number of the Journal. 



V. Tribute to the Memory of Doctor Thomas W a lm* 

 SLEY. By the Editor. 



DR. THOMAS WALMSLEY was a native 

 of Pennsylvania. He was born in the county of Phila- 

 delphia, at the distance of about fifteen miles from Phi- 

 ladelphia, in the year 1781. 



Descended from a respectable English family, which 

 had long been settled in this country, blessed with pa- 

 rents who were moral and virtuous, and knew the value 

 of education, the early instruction of young Walmsley 

 was not neglected. He passed through the ordinary 

 course of English schooling, and afterwards acquired a 

 knowledge of the principles of the Latin, and some 

 kno^^•ledge of the Greek, language. 



At the age of nineteen, he began the study of medi- 

 cine, under the direction of a respectable physician in 

 the vicinity of his birth-place. His studies, in the latter 

 part of his time, were entrusted to the writer of this tri- 

 bute, whom he selected, from many others, as his 

 preceptor, that he might enjoy, along with the advanta- 



* Hist. lib. I. cap. I. 



