crimination, —_- 
I shall beg your permission to remark that we have here a con- 
clusive proof as to one point of Dr. Morton’s character; I refer 
to what may be called his good sense; for it is in this country, 
and probably elsewhere, an evidence of good sense, when a medi- 
cal man devotes himself with success, to the pursuit of Natural 
History, or any cognate study, without complete rain to his pros- 
pects as a practitioner, * * * feed 
He had early begun to make his now celebrated collection of 
Vestigated organic remains; he explained problems in zoology 
and ethnology; he diligently attended the sick ; he. published 
Yet nothing could make him either vain or arrogant 
highest quarters in the whole republic of letters. Dr. Morton re- 
Plied > «J beg you never to repeat that. I assure you it will be 
able to me ever to hear of it again.” Yet certainly, if 
&Man might accept a compliment, he could not desire a better or 
More disinterested one than that was which pronounced him to 
one American Humboldt. poe 
Tn 1834 Dr. Morton made a voyage to the West Indies, which 
Bave him opportunity to investigate points in relation to their 
fological structure. <a tee 
the 18th September, 1839, he was elected Professor of 
Anatomy in Pennsylvania Medical College, which office he ven 
ted November 6th, 1843. ah Oily 
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