164 Memoir of Samuel George Morton. 
crania of mammals; of birds 267, and of reptiles and fishes 8l— 
making 1468 specimens, the number of which in the course of 
the last ten years has been very considerably increased: 
I think that this is a just and yet modest exposition of his lib- 
erality, perseverance, and labor in behalf of science, leaving out 
of consideration the fatigue of so great a correspondence as Was 
necessary to effect his object, and the inconvenient expenses, 
without which it could not have been carried on. pe 
fr. Morton never would have encountered all these toilé 8 
© compose and publish a great work in America is a bold 
undertaking on the part of an author. But, notwithstanding the 
demands of a growing family, which he loved with a love 
, and for whom he desired to secure the priceless bene 
fits of education, which he always deemed better than gold 
much fine gold, or any endowment with worldly estate, he 
» to publish his great work, Crania American® 
which should contain the fruits of his labors and. researches; 
and he also resolved that it should at the same time serve 
illustrate an important department of the Arte in Philadelphia. 
iS i ut 
All this he did when h 
spirit among this community, might have been expected; the 
bare announcement of it brought numerous inquiries from a 
showing the desire of many learned and eminent persons to know 
