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adelphia could boast a larger, few an equal practice. His claims to 

 distinction, in this capacity, were proved by his well known work on 

 Consumption and other valuable publications, as well as by his lectures 

 at the Philadelphia Hospital, Pennsylvania College, and other medical 

 institutions with which he was at different times connected. 



One would suppose that with the burthen of his heavy practice, and 

 all the addition of these laborious collaterals pressing upon him, he 

 could find but little leisure for other pursuits, and indulge but small 

 hope of acquiring fame in a different path. His history is an example 

 ot what men can do, even under adverse circumstances, who are pa- 

 tient, who are resolute, who are industrious, who are wise, who are true 

 to themselves and sufficient to themselves. Ever calm, but ever active, 

 always prepared for the exigencies of his business duties, and ever 

 ready to devote to profitable use the scanty intervals of leisure which 

 those duties allowed him, he found time for continual participation in 

 scientific affairs, and in the proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, of which he was for thirty years a member — and for many 

 years its Vice President and President; and, what is more, with the 

 additional incumbrance of this general scientific participation, he found 

 time also to produce those great works, the Crania Americana and 

 Crania ^gyptiaca, which immediately placed him in the front rank of 

 archseologists and ethnographers throughout the world. The appear- 

 ance of the first named of these volumes established an era ; it opened 

 a new department of research ; it created a new science — one that has 

 done more for the true exposition of human history, the interpretation 

 of the mysteries of race differences and race affinities — far more than 

 any thing ever previously effected by the pen of the annalist or the 

 wand of science. Few scientific works ever produced a stronger or 

 ^ore durable impression on the philosophic mind, or have had a more 

 powerful effect in directing the course of future investigations. 



But we have no space to write the history or attempt the eulogium 

 of Dr. Morton. That task will fall to more competent hands; though 

 ^t could be undertaken by none who knew him better or prized him 

 niore. It will be all the more justly executed where there is a less 

 lively sensibility or less oppressive appreciation of his loss. Let 



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say of him, only, t])at he was a good, as well as great man; estimable 

 in all his relations; respectable in all he thought and did; a man of 

 pure heart and blameless life fa faithful physician; a kind friend ; a 

 lovmg husband and father ; a gentle companion ; an exemplary citizen. 

 It IS only at the hour of his death, that many, who knew Dr. Morton 

 well, will be conscious that a great man has been taken away, and a 

 'ight quenched which has long shed a common lustre upon the country 

 and the world.— iVor/7t American, Philadelphia. 



Few men more respected and beloved have been taken from us than 

 iJr- Samuel George Morton, and few more respected and beloved re- 

 {"'"^'n- II is not only in the domestic and social relations, as husband, 

 brother, friend and neighbor, that his place cannot be supplied : but his 

 position in the profession, and as a man of science, it will be equally 

 "'"icult to fill. His whole character was marked by singular proprie- 



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