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incorporated in 1821, for establishing the Law Aca- 

 demy of Philadelphia, to whose success he main- 

 ly contributed. And that Academy will ever revere 

 the memory of their illustrious patron. 



I need not enumerate the religious, charitable, and 

 benevolent associations of which he was an efficient 

 member. In most of those Societies he held a dis- 

 tinguished rank ; for his fellow-citizens delighted to 

 honour him. Nor were the tributes of respect he re- 

 ceived, confined to this city or to this State. In the 

 year 1814, Harvard University, that ancient and ce- 

 lebrated institution, which is known not to be lavish 

 of its honours, conferred upon him, unsolicited, the 

 degree of Doctor of Laws ; he was also elected a 

 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences. Those distinctions, though unsouglit, must 

 have been grateful to him, from a city which rivals 

 Philadelphia, in her zeal for the promotion of know- 

 ledge. Of his attachment to science, and in particu- 

 lar to the Philosophical Society of Pennsylvania, he 

 gave a proof in the last solemn act of his life. By his 

 last "Will and Testament, he left a legacy of two hun- 

 dred dollars, to this Society; and a like one to the 

 Athenaeum of Philadelphia. 



Those who knew Dr. Wistarand Judge Tilghmaa 

 while they both lived, cannot but have observed that 

 similarity of disposition and feelings which produced 

 the warm and intimate friendship that subsisted be- 

 tween them. The same expansive philanthropy, 

 the same love of truth, the same constancy in tlieir 



