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of the teeth of the elder defunct at so advanced an age, is a sure proof 
that he had never enjoyed ‘‘the blessings of civilization.’ (These erania 
are now deposited in the Museum of the College of Surgeons.) 
It is so rare to meet with the actual memorials of personages named, 
ever so incidentally in Roman history, that have escaped ‘‘The Goth, the 
Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire,’”’ that this marble may justly be 
reckoned amongst the most interesting relics of antiquity that have come 
down to our times. As the monument of a great scholar, who enjoyed so 
high a reputation in the brightest days of literature, no more fitting shrine 
for its preservation could have been found than the library of Trinity 
College, where the Munes of the ancient Professor will, after so many 
centuries of oblivion, hear his name and fame once more echoed by 
thousands of voices—and be (let us hope) propitious to the depositor who 
has thus carried out the last desire of the tormented ghost: 
‘‘Rinfresca la memoria mia che giace.”’ 
Obituary Notice of Ferdinand Vandevere Hayden, M.D., PhD, Line, 
By Prof. J. P. Lestey. 
(Read before the American Philosophical Society, January 20, 1888.) 
Dr. Hayden was born in Westfield, Mass., September 7, 1829; was 
graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1850; and received a diploma 
from the Albany Medical College in 1853. Under the orders of Prof. 
James Hall of Albany, he went with Mr. F. B. Meek to collect Cretaceous 
and Tertiary fossils in the White River Bad Lands. In 1854-5 he explored 
the upper Missouri river region, mainly at his own expense, aided by the 
American Fur Company; following the Missouri river to Fort Benton, 
and the Yellowstone to the mouth of the Big Horn. His collections of 
fossils were sent partly to the Academy of Natural Sciences in St. Louis, 
and partly to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. In 1856 
he made a summary report of the whole region which he had explored to 
Lieutenant Warren, U.S.T.E., and immediately began a general recon- 
naisance of the North-west as geologist on Warren’s staff. This survey 
extended to 1859. The next three years, to 1862, he explored the Yellow- 
stone and Missouri rivers as naturalist and surgeon to Captain Raynolds’ 
expedition. The Civil War having broken out, Dr. Hayden, in May, 1862, 
was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon of Volunteers and placed in 
charge, first of Satterlee Huspital in Philadelphia, and then (February, 
1863, as full Surgeon of Volunteers) of Beaufort, South Carolina. February, 
