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began to collect skulls, wiiich when acquired by the Aciideiny of Natural Sciences, of Philadel- piiia, numbered 1,500 specimens, 918 of which were liuman. He was professor of anatomy in in Pennsylvania Medical college, 1839-43, and one of the physicians and clinical teachers of the Alms House hospital at Philadelphia for many years. He was a member of the Medical Society of Sweden, Royal Botanical Society of Ratisbon, Academy of Science and Letters at Palermo, Royal Society of North- ern Antiquaries at Copenhagen, Academy of Science, Letters and Arts de Zelanti di arci- reale. Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, the Medical Society of Edinburgh, the Seucken- burg Natural History Society of Frankfort-on-the Main. He is the author of : Analysis of Tabular Spar from Bucks County, Pa. (1827) ; A Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Cretaceous Group of the United States (1834) ; Illustrations of Pul- monary Consumption (18S4:) ; Crania Americana, or a Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America, folio (1839); Crania Egyptiaca, or Observations on Egyptian Ethnography, Derived from Vie His- tory of the Monuments and Catacombs of Thebes (1844) ; An Illustrated System of Human An- atomy, Special, General, and Microscopic (1849), and contributions to Silliman's Journal. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 1851.

MORTON, Thomas Qeorge, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 8, 1835; son of Dr. Samuel George and Rebecca Grellet (Pear- sail) Morton, and a descendant (maternally) of Henry Pearsall, Long Island, N. Y., 1644, and of Capt. John Underbill, 1630. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, 1850-51, and was graduated at the medical department in 1856. He was the resident surgeon at St. Joseph's hos- pital in Philadelphia in 1856, at Wills' Eye hos- pital in 1857, and at the Pennsylvania hospital, 1857-58. He settled in Philadelphia in the prac- tice of surgery in 1859, and served in the field in Virginia and at Washington, D. C, and was act- ing assistant surgeon of the U. S. army, 1862-64. He was also actively engaged in organizing mili- tary hospitals, including the U. S. Army hospital, Philadelphia, of which he was surgeon-in-chief, in 1863. He was one of the surgeons at Satterlee hospital, and consulting surgeon of the Mower Army hospital in 1863. He was surgeon to Wills' Eye hospital, 1859-74, and surgeon emeritus from 1874; consulting surgeon to the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind in 1862, surgeon to the Pennsylvania hospital, 1864, pathologist and curator of the Pennsylvania hospital, 1860-64 ; founder and surgeon to the Orthopaedic hospital in 1867 ; physician to the Howard hospital, 1865- ^ 75. and surgeon to the Jewish and Woman's ha«i-

pitals in 1870. He was commissioner of public charities in Pennsylvania in 1883 ; consulting surgeon to the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in 1885 ; chairman of the lunacy commission of Pennsylvania, 1886-93 ; commis- sioner for the erection of the State Insane hos- pital at Morristown, Pa., in 1876, and chairman of the committee on plans and buildings ; presi- dent of the American Society for the Restriction of Vivisection, 1885-86 ; professor of clinical and operative surgery in the Pliiladelphia Polyclinic college, 1889, and vice-president of the Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty. He in- troduced the ward-carriage into the Pennsylvania hospital in 1866, the bed elevator and carriage in 1874, and received a medal from the Centennial exposition in 1876 for his hospital ward dress- ing-carriage. He was made a fellow of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons in 1861 ; a mem- ber of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadel- phia, in 1856 ; honorary member of the Society of Mental Medicine in Belgium, 1888 ; a member of the American Philosophical society, 1900 ; com- panion of the Loyal Legion ; member of the So- ciety of Colonial Wars ; the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, the Founders and Patriots of Amer- ica, the Sons of the Revolution, the Holland So- ciety ; the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States ; the American Surgical associa- tion and the American Medical association in 1864 ; American Ophthalmological society, and a member and officer in all the prominent medical societies in Philadelphia. He was married, Nov. 12, 1861, to Ann Jenks, daughter of Dr. Thomas Story and Ann (Jenks) Kirkbride, of Philadel- phia. He contributed to (he American Journal of Medical Sciences, and to the Pennsylvania Hospital Reports, and is the author of : Lecture on the Transfusion of Blocfd and its Practical Ap- plication (1877) ; Surgery of Pennsylvania Hos- pital, with Dr. William Hunt (1880); Trans- fusion of Blood and its Practical Application (1887) ; and History of the Pennsylvania Hos- pital. 1751-1S05 (1895).

MORTON, William Thomas Green, dentist, was born in Charlton township, Mass., Aug. 9, 1819 ; son of James Morton ; grandson of Thomas Morton, a Revolutionary soldier, and a descend- ant of Robert Morton, who came from Scotland to Mendon, Mass., and removed thence to New Jersey, where he founded Elizabethtown. His father, a farmer, lost his property in 1835, and William was obliged to leave school and support himself. He studied dentistry with Horace Wells (q. V.) in Hartford, Conn., was a partner of Dr. Wells in Hartford, and soon after removed to Boston. He was married in May, 1844, to Eliza- beth, daughter of Edward Whitman, of Farming- ton, Conn. He entered as a student of medicine