400 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 



distinct and widely diverging fasciculi of webs ; and their 

 position in the air was such, that a line uniting them would 

 have been at right angles with the direction of the breeze. 

 — Magazine of Natural History. 



65. OBITUARY OF DR. JOHN GORHAM. 



Continued life, and long life, are intensely desired by most 

 men, although with the inevitable condition, that we must 

 see our friends fall around us ; and if we attain to old age, 

 only here and there one of our early associates will remain. 

 Happy indeed are we, if, by the time when our shadows be- 

 gins to lengthen towards the east, we do not find, that most 

 of the friends of our youth have gone before us, and left us 

 solitary mourners. These reflections, replete with interest,, 

 as to the present and \he future^ have been painfully forced up- 

 on the writer, by the death of an eminent early associate and 

 friend. Dr. John Gorham, M. D. of Boston. Distinguished as a 

 physician, as an author, and as a professor of science ; — as 

 a man, lovely and beloved, even far beyond the limits of his 

 own endeared family ; a graceful and polished ornament, of 

 a community, conspicuous for intelligence and refinement ; 

 — we are grieved that such an individual should be stricken 

 from life, when, in distinguished usefulness and honor, he was 

 but just passing its meridian ; and we can only submit in si- 

 lence, where we cannot understand, and must not repine. — 

 I may perhaps be permitted to add, that among the succes- 

 sive periods of my earlier years, few are remembered with so 

 much satisfaction, as that passed at Edinburgh, in 1805 and 

 1806, in intimate domestic association with the lamented 

 Gorham, and his respected survivor.* The loss is severe 

 to the community of which he was a member ; and to his 

 family and friends, irreparable. We look, with much inter- 

 est, for a printed notice of him, from the pen of the accom- 

 plished gentleman, who, on the funeral occasion, pronounc- 

 ed his merited eulogy. 



* The Rev. Dr. Codman, now of Dorchester ; Dr. Gorham, Dr. Codman. 

 and the writer occupied the apartments of one house, and assembled at the 

 same table, and that, (according to the custom of Edinburgh.) exclusively their 

 own ; never were associates more harmonious. 



