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times, and that even Conrad Gesner and John Ray had passed it 
by in silence.— Dec. C 
considerable and valuable ? o 
he augmentation of his museum of crania of men and ani- 
mals, made Dr. Morton, doubtless, to a great extent, aware of 
those cranial homologies so curiously set forth by the illustrious 
Oken, and which, if they may be clearly assumed as of the lower 
animals in various genera, must become in man merely differen- 
tial ones; yet still, as Blumenbach and others, but most of all 
Dr. Morton -have shown, easily appreciable. As ethnological 
attributes or marks, he certainly learned to discriminate and use 
them with great facility and exactness. gilt 
His valuable museum grew steadily up to the close of his life 
y frequent additions gathered from the whole world; and even 
Since his death valuable specimens designed for it have arrived 
n 
I desire not, gentlemen, to give undue praise to the subject of 
this Memoir, and it is not from any such promptings that I beg 
to refer you to the eulogy pronounced by Dr. Pariset upon Cuvier, 
at the Acad. Royale des Sciences of Paris, July 9, 1833. Dr. 
. atiset wished to show how energetic was the spirit of Cuvier, 
Mtegard to the Mus. d’ Hist. Nat., at the Jard. de Plantes i and 
Speaking of his appointment there, he says, “ Il entre au museum, 
et ’y rencontre que quelques squélettes incomplets ou vermou- 
lous, qu’il faut tirer de la poussiére. En quelques années plus de 
quatre cents squélettes de mammiferes ; plus de douze cents prepa- 
ia Osseuses; plus de seize cents organes d’animaux a sang- 
Touge et a sang-blane conservés dans de l’esprit de vin, sortent 
des mains de Cuvier.” s ® 
Vhui plus de d ille ci slettes de mammiferes, et 
ay eux mille cing cents sque’ : ; 
Voiseans, de reptiles, de re plus de quatre mille prépara- 
Plus'de quinze mille piéces, dont plus de quatorze mille _— 
ui.”’ 7 
