364 Obituary Notice of Dr. Gaspar Spurzheim. 
constant, extensive, and minute study, it was to be expected that many 
of those who had been induced to embrace it either by the eloquence 
of the celebrated teacher, or by a partial success in their own phre- 
nological divinations, relaxed in their scientific pursuits ; and a num- 
ber of phrenological societies, formed during the full tide of popu- 
larity, dwindled away until they wholly disappeared. Still in Edin- 
burgh, which city Dr. Spurzheim again visited in 1828, the study of 
Phrenology is pursued with unabated ardor, and diligence. From 
England Dr. Spurzheim returned to Paris, where he continued to 
lecure, and where he had collected a large phrenological cabinet. 
~ “In the summer of the present year, Dr. Spurzheim came inal 
country, where lectures on Phrenology had been delivered long be- 
fore his arrival, and a phrenological society formed at Philadelphia. 
On board the ship he proved himself a friend in need to a number 
of poor emigrants ; many of whom being taken sick on their passage, 
experienced his kind and successful medical assistance. Dr. Spurz- 
heim arrived at New York on the 6th of August, in the heat of 
- summer, while the cholera was raging there, and immediately went 
on to New Haven, where he stopped a few days. A letter from one 
of the most eminent men of Yale College, in whose family Dr. ‘Spurz- 
heim spent much of his time, speaks of the ‘ amiable, winning sim- 
plicity of his manners, and his unpretending good sense, and good 
feeling.’ From New Haven he came on to this city, with which he 
felt already familiar, — a number of Bostonians, with whom he 
had become acquainted in Europe. He intended to stay in this 
country about two years, to lecture in the principal towns, then to 
visit the different tribes of our Indians ; and at last to return to Paris. 
The easy access which that city presents to so many treasures of 
science, and its being the place of residence of some of his ups int 
mate friends, gave rise, now and then, to feelings of 
which were soon merged, however, in that universal aeons 
which made him consider any portion of the human family ith 
which he happened to be connected, and to whom he could | do: 
See: as his sbi relatives.” 
tle. in Boston, chiefly for medical men, one sooth 
lectures on. os anatomy of the brain ; and two popular courses 07 
Sy, One in Boston and the ede in Cambridge, “ which he 
had ite Roleghancd when death overtook him, in the midst of. bis 
labors. In his anatomical demonstration of the brain, he endeavor 
ed to unfold the design of nature in the complicated structure of this 
