Hall of the .Icadcmy of Xatural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



July 1, IS II. 

 At a special meeting of the Society held this evening-, Dr. Morton, pursuant 

 to appointment, read a Memoir of Win, Maclure, Esq., late President of the 

 Academy: whereupon it was unanimously 



Resolved, That the members of the Academy have listened with deep inte- 

 rest and entire satisfaction to the Discourse which lias just been pronounced. 



', That the thanks of the Academy be presented to Dr. Samuel 

 George Morton for the able, faithful, and eloquent memoir of our late lament- 

 ed President, William Maclure, this evening read to the Society, and that 

 he be requested to furnish a copy of the same for publication. 



Rn /. That Prof. Walter It. Johnson, John Price Wetherill, Esq., and 

 Dr. Robert Bridges be a committee to communicate to Dr. Morton the forego- 

 ing Resolutions. 



Philadelphia, July 2, 1841. 

 To Samuel George Morton*, M. D. 



Pear Sir — We have been directed by the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia to present you with a copy of the foregoing Resolutions, and 

 perform a duty equally grateful to our own feelings and expressive of the 

 unanimous sentiments of the Society, in tendering to you the thanks of the 

 Institution for your admirable performance commemorative of our late lamented 

 President. 



While the friends and cultivators of Science mourn their recent loss and pay 

 homage to departed worth among its patrons, they will not fail to recognise in 

 such a tribute to the memory of the dead, a vigorous surviving spirit of scien- 

 tific devotion — a pledge that the generous aspirations in our cause which ceased 

 .vith the life of Maclure, will find an ample fulfilment among the living 

 recipients of his munificence. 



Accept, sir, with the thanks of the Academy, the assurance of our individual 

 esteem and sincere regard. 



WAITER R. JOHNSON,") 



JOHN P. WETHERILL, £ Committee. 

 ROBERT BRIDGES, 3 



