Memoir of Samuel George Morton. 177 
I have already said that his love for his family was almost 
idolatrous, and many of us who are witnesses of the graceful and 
unaffected hospitality of his house, can testify as to the marks of 
his love and confidence towards them: and we must, with one 
accord, regret the dissolution of those pleasant reunions, in which 
we have participated there, with men of letters and science of our 
own country or from foreign nations, who, with us, observed the 
cordiality and simplicity of his manners, in which were joined, 
in he proportions, dignity and urbanity. 
orton was a man above the ordinary stature ; his face was 
oval, and oa A pale ; his eyes a clear bluish-gray ; his hair rio 
an, he was modest in his demeanor, of no arr pr 
Rasen and of a forgiving temper; charitable and vespacttil to 
others, yet never forgetful of self-r respect. ‘That he was a reli- 
gions man I know from many opportunities had with him, and 
from his life and conversation. He was always in earnest and 
always to be depended upon. 
ew men are to be found more free from faults, and few of 
greater probity or of more liberal sentiments, or of purer designs 
and aspirations. Doubtless he had faults, but they were not 
obvious, and I never discovered thei in an acquaintance of near 
thirty years with him 
I have endeavored, while speaking of my friend, and while 
expressing my thoughts of what he was and what he performed, 
hot to transcend the bounds of truth as to his character and his 
actions. I willingly give praise to all such Scholars; for I regard 
all men like him as fit teachers and guides for mankind. 
oop seats had the honor to be elected member of many societies of the learned 
1 various ei of the United States, in Europe, and in the East, among which 
were the fo 
e of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The bing Medical 
Society. The re Colle ege of Physicians of Philade se age The Am Philosophical 
Society. The =e a States Medical Association. g Masenchonetts aeons So- 
ciety, The W, Academy of Natural Seiences pe ‘st Louis, Mo. e Georgia 
Historical Bocisty, nthe Lyceum of Natural History of New Vo. The Boston 
prem of Natural History. The Ailierioan Oriental Society at Boston. 
Am Ethnological Soci 
pes 
logica 
"Royal Botanical Society of Ratisbon. The Aca my 0 of Science and 
at Palermo. The Royal Society of Northern pcagie at Co’ penne ‘The 
Academy of Science, Letters, and Arts de Zelanti di Arci-reale. e Imperial So- 
ciety of Naturalists of Moscow. 9 ee en gun mg of Edinburgh. tao inte 
_— Natural History Society of Frankfort-on-Mayne 
e the titles of the published works of Dr. Morton, after which 
a placed a “ransaton of a letter addressed to him by the 
de his papers in different Journals, we propose to give in another place — 
ee of the Organic Remains of the ee Group of the United States, 
8vo, With 19 eb Philadel: 
Ufestrations af of Pulmonary Consumption, its Anatomical. ‘Character, Sem 
Re Sr and Treatment, with 12 : Philadel a 
Mackintosh’s of Physic, with Ne Notes coke 8.6. wae 
Srconp Seriss, Vol. XII, No. 38,—March, 1862. 
