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doctor ; but his integrity placed him above assuming to himself 

 anything to which he was not justly entitled. 



When epidemics prevailed, the poor and suffering always found 

 in him a friend, ever ready to attend to them and relieve their 

 sufferings. 



Up to a late period of life, he purchased almost every newly 

 published volume on medical science, to the study of which he 

 was much attached ; and at his death he left one of the most 

 extensive private medical libraries in this city. But he delighted 

 most in the study and cultivation of chemical science. 



Advanced age and infirmity induced him to decline re-election 

 to the office of President of the Academy, in December, 1849, 

 an office he occupied during nine years. He died on the 12th of 

 June, 1851, in the 87th year of his age. 



Mr. Hembel was a philanthropist, eminently benevolent, 

 very sensitive, and of a modest, retiring disposition, which his 

 infirmity of hearing led him to indulge. His literary and scien- 

 tific acquirements were of a high order, and secured for him the 

 respect of learned men. In him this Society lost a liberal patron, 

 the community an excellent citizen, and the poor a devoted 

 friend. 



When his decease was announced at a meeting of the Society 

 (June 17th, 1851), the following preamble and resolutions, sub- 

 mitted by Mr. Ord, were unanimously adopted : 



" The Academy, deeply sensible of the death of their vene- 

 rable member, are impelled by a sense of duty, to give formal 

 expression of their sorrow at the loss of one who, during the 

 period of twenty-six years, was zealously active in his exertions, 

 to advance those branches of knowledge for the cultivation of 

 which this Institution was created : It is, therefore, 



"Resolved, That the Academy, in mourning the departure of 

 a friend whose long life was signalized by his devotion to scien- 

 tific pursuits, derive consolation from the reflection that their 

 steadfast benefactor was as conspicuous for his efficient benevo- 

 lence, as for his integrity and social virtues. 



"Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing be transmitted to the 

 family of the deceased."* 



Dr. Samuel George Morton was our fourth President. 



Dr. Morton was born in Philadelphia on the 26th of January, 



* Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Vol. 5, p. 213. 



