TESTIMONIAL TO PROFESSOR MORTON. 
297 
Mr. Lupton having taken the chair, said — Gentlemen, at 
the early part of the session, a suggestion was made that 
some token of respect should be presented to our talented 
professor now occupying the chair of Chemistry and Materia 
Medica. This suggestion at once found favour amongst the 
students, who unanimously agreed, that a service of plate 
should be presented to him. My brother students have 
done me the honour to elect me their chairman, thus making 
me their representative on this occasion, and imposed upon 
me a duty which I feel it difficult to discharge, that of ex- 
pressing, in appropriate language, their views and feelings 
towards the person whom it is their delight to honour. 
But thus called to office, I will endeavour to perform its 
duties to the best of my ability. Professor Morton is not 
merely known in this college as our esteemed and talented 
lecturer, but he is also known in the scientific world by his 
writings and discoveries ; and should he never give another 
lecture, or write another book, he has already done enough 
to cause his name to be for ever remembered. Professor 
Morton is thoroughly a chemist. The subjects of his lec- 
tures seem to engage his chief thoughts, and to call forth 
the energies of his mind. His very leisure he makes sub- 
servient to the duties of his official position. When he visits 
the continent of Europe, or other places, which he does 
most summers, he returns with some information altogether 
new, or some new view of an old subject, which it is his 
delight to communicate to his pupils in this theatre, and 
which it is equally their delight to hear explained and see 
exemplified by him. There is a fascination about all he 
says, which rivets the attention of the student. This may 
be owing to his extensive reading, and well-stored mind. 
For not only do subjects kindred with chemistry naturally 
occupy his thoughts, but he seems, from the tone of his 
lectures, to have a great relish for poetiy, and he not un- 
frequently quotes passages from our best writers, if not to 
illustrate, at least to add a grace and an elegance to the 
subjects on which he treats. I am sure that you, my fel- 
low-students, wish as I do, for the continued welfare of this 
college, and equally rejoice with me at its increasing reputa- 
tion, allied to it as we are by our voluntary choice. And 
what do we see in Professor Morton ? Why, a chemist, 
who occupies a very conspicuous place ; and who has chosen 
this institution as the arena in which to exercise his art, and 
the centre from which his fame is to spread. And here we 
are assembled, the teachers and the taught, to express our 
feelings towards him. Is it not an honour to this institution, 
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