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AMD., late President of the Academy of Natural Sciences of ee 
. Philadelphia ; by Cuarues D. Metres, M.D.* aM 
My ++ + % Samve, Grorce Morton was born at Philadelphia, 
on the 26th January, 1799. His father, Mr. George Morton, a 
ve of Clonmel, in Ireland, was descended from a respectable 
cad cmboved. For the purpose of augmenting his fortune, he 
y emigrated to America, and devoted himself to mercantile © 
chil an orphan only six months old. The widow and her thr 
dren thus bereaved, and left with limited resources, withd. : 
Now the City, retiring to a place a few miles from the CUY OFS y | 
_* Read November 6, 1851, and published by eee Lem cae 
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