158 Memoir of Samuel George Morton. 
Here he diligently attended the lectures of Professor Munro 
the younger, of Prof. Hope, Prof. Home, both the Hamiltons, 
and with great delight the geological lectures of Prof. Jameson. 
The last-named gentleman inspired him with a warmer zeal for 
natural science, though it is probable that his connection with 
Dr. Harlan, who had been one of Dr. Parrish’s assistant instrue- 
tors, had inducted him already into some positive acquaintance 
with and fondness for such studies. 
the sublime in Nature, he also cherished a habit of philosophical 
observation, and that he returned strengthened in body, and el 
larged in his 
medical science, it was determined that he should pursue his 
further medical studies there. Accordingly, he bade adieu 1 
onmel again on the 4th day of October, and passing a few 
days in London and at other interesting points in England, vs 
arrived at Paris on the 26th of the month. ; 
_ Here he devoted himself very assiduously to his tasks as st 
dent, indulging very sparingly in the amusements and distractious 
of that seductive city. He was always on his guard against ™ 
temptations; and very frequently had before him the image. 
his decease 
ing her lifeti stished her memory 
while he himself lived. Netlme, and cherished her me! 
He told me that, when t 
he carrj t of the gates of 
Paris on his way to Italy, ate er 
he looked back towards the metropolis 
and upon the smoke and dust above it, and, raising his eyes ered 
hands towards Heaven, ejaculated his thankfulness to be deliver 
rom the moral contagion in which he had lived there, 
thought of the cities of the plain. 
