. Annals of medical history. n promotion inEngland to professorial honours he returnedto Paris with the intention of remainingthtrt permanently with his French he also failed to obtain scientific supportthere and following her death, he yieldedto ])ressing invitations from America tocross the Atlantic. In 1832 he sailed forthe United States, arriving in New YorkAugust 4, 1832. According to the Hon. Na-hum Capen- his literary representative andfrliiul, his career began under favourable - NaluMn Capcn was horn at Canton, Massa-cluisctts, April 1, 1804. Postmaster of Boston1857-1861; pub
. Annals of medical history. n promotion inEngland to professorial honours he returnedto Paris with the intention of remainingthtrt permanently with his French he also failed to obtain scientific supportthere and following her death, he yieldedto ])ressing invitations from America tocross the Atlantic. In 1832 he sailed forthe United States, arriving in New YorkAugust 4, 1832. According to the Hon. Na-hum Capen- his literary representative andfrliiul, his career began under favourable - NaluMn Capcn was horn at Canton, Massa-cluisctts, April 1, 1804. Postmaster of Boston1857-1861; publisher (Marsh, Capcn di Lyons);died in Boston January 4, 18S6. Collection of the Boston Phrenological Society auspices and attracted the attention ofprominent citizens in the \arioiis townsand cities he \isited. But it was destined tol)e a short one, Tor he fell ill and died ofwhat appears to have been typhoid fever,in Boston, November lo, 1832. He liesburied at Mt. Auburn, almost the firstoccupant of that cemetery which had. Portrait of Spurziieim by Alvan Fisher.(Harvard Medical School.) recently been founded by some of Bostonsmost prominent physicians. At the time of his arrival in this countiy,the work of Gall and Spurzheim wasfamiliar to all the scientists of the day andtheir fame survived another generation, forI well remember the frequent quotations ofthe writings of these worthies in the lecturesand literature of my student days, and twoquarto volumes in my possession testify toa quality of work well up to, if not inadvance of, the standards of the period. Gall, F. J., et Spurzheim, G.: Anatomicet phjsi-ologie du system nerveux en general et du ccrveauen particulier. Paris, 1810 (2 vol., numerous plates). I he science of phrenology as expoundedby them had met -with much oppositionbut it also had many enthusiastic supportersand the value of much of their scientificwork was generally recognized. Spurzheimwas moreo\er a man of attracti\e person-ality, if we may judge from
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