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they inevitably became so. Let us search out the truth, and 
reconcile it afterwards.” 
After five days’ illness, he went peacefully and calmly to 
his eternal rest. 
We add with much pleasure a letter received by the dis- 
tinguished Dr Monro from Dr Morton. 
PHILADELPHIA, May 26th. 
My DEAR Srr,—Your kind letter of September 16, and 
the two interesting volumes, were duly received, and should 
have been long ago acknowledged, had I not been looking 
for an opportunity to send you a memoir of my own in re- 
turn, which pleasure I now have. The Crania digyptiaca, 
having been originally published in the Transactions of the 
American Philosophical Society, is restricted within nar- 
rower limits than I would have desired, but Iam now pre- 
paring a second and more extended edition. 
_ IT have read with great interest and instruction your work 
on the Brain, and the internal capacity of the cranium, al- 
though I believe there is but one copy in this city, and that 
is in our Hospital Library. 
If you possess a duplicate copy of it, I should esteem it a 
great favour to possess one, having failed in every attempt 
to procure the work. 
I look back with pleasing recollections to my sojourn in 
Edinburgh, and the period of my graduation there in 1823. 
Since that time I have been engaged in professional duties 
in this city, but have found leisure to give some attention to 
natural science, and especially to geology and ethnology, 
which latter study is now my almost exclusive recreation. 
I assure you that I feel much flattered by the kind senti- 
ments expressed in your letter, and permit me to add that 
it will always give me peculiar pleasure to serve you on this 
side the Atlantic. 
I will thank you to present my best respects to Dr W. P. . 
Alison and Mr George Combe, both of whom I hold in 
grateful remembrance. I remain, dear Sir, very sincerely 
your obliged friend and servant, 
SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON. 
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