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was at once struck with the resemblance of the profile to that of 
Aamesnofri-ari (Cran. Aigypt., pl. 14, fig. 13), Queen of Amun- 
ophis the First; and on the principle that it was the custom of 
the Egyptians to make the features of the god resemble those of 
the monarch under whose reign they were executed, I was led 
to suppose that. this effigy must in some way be connected with 
the Eighteenth Dynasty. 
“Judge of my surprise and pleasure, upon reading the text, to 
find that this figure pertained to that very dynasty, though with- 
out any reference to the likeness between the effigies of the god- 
dess and that of the queen.” : 
-If Iam correct in these opinions, and if you coincide with 
them, certainly you will agree with me in deeming Dr. Morton 
warranted in bringing the light of his knowledge in these partic- 
ulars, to bear upon the dim traces of man’s lost history ; and you 
will, upon due reflection, thank him even more than 
already done, and revere his memory and applaud his actions, 
who has built up that valuable collection now in your museum. 
That museum of yours is the scientific glory of the United 
States; and, it is fondly to be hoped, that the wealth and the 
luxury of Philadelphia, its fame for letters and philosophy, will 
not soon have oceasion to be ashamed and penitent; as it must 
be, if that admirable collection, the fruit of so much toil and 
care, should be greedily and pitilessly taken from you, not by 
the greater wealth, but by the far greater liberality and. public 
spirit of foreign nations or individuals. * * * 
My uty now brings me to: touch upon a subject of extreme 
delicacy ; one which I shouldspass by in silence were it not t t 
by doing so I should fall far short of a due obedience to your 
commands, which are to present to you a memoir of Dr. Morton 
-Lallude now to his published opinions on hybridity, involving 
notions upon the origin of the human race that brought him into 
conflict of opinion with others, whom he would be pained to dis 
turb in their sentiments, and whom he could not expect to un 
settle in matters of religious faith. Indeed he was peculiarly 
averse to such proceedings, and I happen to find in his diary, for 
Dec. 8th, 1849, an entry which shows his abhorrence of infidelity: 
“Some self-sufficient Christians,” says he, ‘endeavor to make 
other persons unhappy in their faith, by representing them 4 
victims of delusion. Such attempts to destroy the sacred tra 
quillity of the human mind under its conscientious impressions 
of right and wrong are equally cruel and wicked with those of 
the true infidel, who would destroy our hope in the future by 
trying to convince us that there is no overruling Providence, and 
no existence beyond the grave.” 
_ Why did Dr. Morton make this entry into a private record of 
his thoughts? Certainly not with the expectation that I should 
see, or you should hear it. 
