OBITUARY. 



WILLIAM SHIPPEN, M. D., Professor of 

 Anatomy and Midwifery in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, died on the 11th day of July last, at the advanced 

 age of seventy-three. He was one of the principal 

 founders of the Medical School of Philadelphia; 

 and, by his popular manner of teaching the sciences 

 which he professed, he contributed, in an eminent de- 

 gree, to the growth and reputation of the most exten- 

 sive and flourishing Medical Seminary in the United- 

 States. It is the intention of the Editor to give, in a 

 future number of the Journal, a " Sketch of the Charac- 

 ter" of his Preceptor and Friend. 



Died in Philadelphia, on the 11th day of January 

 last, in the 47th year of his age, Matthias Barton, Esq., 

 of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania. He was the son of the 

 Reverend Mr. Thomas Barton, for many years a mem- 

 ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Lancaster*, 

 and an elder Brother of the Editor of this Journal. 



* Mr. Barton, the Father, died in New- York, in the year 1780. 

 He was one of the principal founders of the M Juliana Library 



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