OBITUARY NOTICES. vil 
EXTRACT FROM THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
BY EDGAR F. SMITH. 
(Read December 18, 1903.) 
Amid the activities of the year, while we all have been busy in 
our several vocations, word has been passed from time to time that 
the grim Messenger had appeared in our circle and summoned to 
the silent majority not a few of our fellow-members. This roll 
included— 
Dr. CHARLES SCHAFFER, who was born in this city sixty-six years 
ago. He graduated from the Medical Department of the Univer- 
_ sity of Pennsylvania at the age of twenty-one. His poor health 
prevented him from devoting himself wholly to his chosen profes- 
sion. He was deeply interested in the natural sciences and their 
applications. He took an active part in the affairs of the Academy 
of Natural Sciences, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the 
Franklin Institute, the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, the 
American Association of Mining Engineers, and was particularly 
well known in the scientific world for his work in the field of bot- 
any. His knowledge of the local species of plants and shrubs was 
profound. He made a special study of the mountain flora of Brit- 
ish Columbia. He died November 23, 1903. 
Dr. THomas G. Morton was born in this city on August 8, 1835. 
After preparation in the city schools and the College of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania he entered the Medical Department, from 
which he graduated in 1856. 
He devoted himself chiefly to general surgery and was a resident 
physician in the Pennsylvania Hospital for some time. He was one 
of the founders of the Polyclinic Hospital and the Orthopedic Hos- 
pital. His many services to the State on various boards and com- 
missions included the erection of the State Hospital for the Insane 
for the Southern District of Pennsylvania. 
In 1880 he was chosen President of the Pennsylvania Society for 
the Restriction of Vivisection and Vice-President of the Society to 
Protect Children from Cruelty. Dr. Morton had great success as a 
surgeon. His clinical lectures at the Pennsylvania Hospital were 
attended by thousands of students from all parts of the world. He 
was a member of various foreign and American professional bodies, 
