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MEMOIR OF 
and wore crape round their arms for thirty days.” Hk 
remains were deposited in the cemetery of the Swedish 
Church, in the district of Southwark, Philadelphia, 
While in the enjoyment of health, he had, in a conversa- 
tion with a friend on the subject of death, expressed a 
wish to be buried in some rural spot, sacred to peace and 
solitude ; whither the charms of nature might invite the 
steps of the votary of the muses and the lover of science, 
and where the birds might sing over his grave . It has been 
matter of regret to those of his friends to whom was 
confided the mournful duty of ordering his funeral, that 
this desire had not been made known to them, otherwise 
it should have been piously observed. A plain marble 
tomb marks where his dust reposes, on which appears the 
following inscription : — 
THIS MONUMENT 
COVERS THE REMAINS OF 
ALEXANDER WILSON, • 
AUTHOR OF THE 
AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
HE WAS BORN IN RENFREWSHIRE, SCOTLAND, 
on the 6th JULY, 1766 ; 
EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES 
IN THE YEAR 1794 ; 
AND DIED IN PHILADELPHIA, 
OF THE DYSENTERY, 
ON THE 23d AUGUST, 1813, 
AGED 47. 
Part of the eighth volume of the Ornithology having 
been put through the press before the author’s death, the 
remainder was edited by his friend Mr George Ord, 
F.L. S. and published in January, 1814. The ninth 
volume made its appearance in May, 1814, the plates 
having been printed and coloured under Wilson’s own 
superintendance, and the letter-press supplied by Mr Ord, 
