president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; had been a member of various other societies-filled the most important stations in the gift of the people, and received the highest honors from our universities and colleges. The latter part of his life was spent in private retirement. As an orator, he was one of the most powerful his country ever beheld. It was the remark of Thomas Jefferson, that on the subject of the colonies, John Adams, by his eloquence, moved us from our seats.' In learning, he was profound, and in religious knowledge surpassed the theologians of his age. He died at 6 o'clock, P. M., on the 4th of July, 1826, in the 91st year of his age.

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The remarkable circumstance of his death, as well as that of his compatriot and friend, Thomas Jefferson, are too well known to need further remark. It may be worth while to mention, that previous to the 4th of July, he had been solicited to give a sentiment for his fellow townsmen, at that day's celebration. I will give,' said he, INDEPENDENCE FOREVER.' On being asked if he would add anything, he answered, 'not a sylable.' This sentiment was drank amidst the united acclamations of his fellow townsmen, perhaps at the very moment when his spirit was returning to God who gave it."-(History of Quincy, by Rev. Geo. Whitney.)

Jedediah Adams, son of Peter, grandson of Joseph, and great grandson of Henry, the ancestor of this family, died 1799, in his 89th year, and the 53d of his ministry. Nearly or quite all the Adamses of note are descended from Joseph, the eighth and last son of the ancestor. He married a Baxter, through whom, probably, the Adamses receive their talents, had twelve children, and died at 83-two indices of great physical vigor.

Professor Adams, of Vt., the first scholar in the author's college class, is from the same stock.

Few likenesses evince a greater development of this organ than that of ELIAS HICKS, and few persons possessed the corresponding FACULTY in as prominent a degree. His business, religion, everything, was perfect clockwork, and this peculiarity is equally conspicuous in the organizations and characters of several of his grandchildren and great grandchildren. His physiological conformation, in common with the one already given, indicates longevity 321.

MRS. GIBSON, mother of Dr. Gibson, formerly editor of the U. S. Telegraph, Washington, D. C., had an extraordinary

organ and faculty of ORDER, So much so that the least thing out of place annoyed her excessively. Her son, Dr. G., had but little, and his wife not a great deal, but his little daughter" took after " her grandmother, and even before she could put things in place, evinced great uneasiness at every trifling instance of disorder. As soon as she could walk she went about the house, grandmother-like, setting chairs and everything to rights. Thus this faculty passed one generation 318

371. SPECIFIC INTELLECTUAL TALENTS AND CALCULATION

Are also innate. Of this the transmission of the mathematical talents furnishes an illustration. I found large Calculation in the head of Mr. B., of Woodbury, N. J., and described him accordingly. He said he never found his equal, except in his FATHER and GRANDFATHER.

To MR. PRATT, while examining his head professionally, I said, "Your father had a mathematical turn of mind." He at first thought not, but was soon reminded of the fact by his wife, and added that his uncle was equally so. Such cases are common in my public and private examinations. The data on which predictions are made, has already been given. MR. BAKER, of London, Canada West, has large Causality and Calculation, together with superior mathematical powers. His father does not possess them, but his grandfather and uncle do 318.

Mr. H., near W., Pa., has great mathematical organs and talents, which have descended FOUR generations. A cousin is a celebrated mathematical teacher, and a public surveyor of Columbia Co., Pa. This talent is most developed in the

male line.

A son of the author of "Colburn's Arithmetic,”—a work which has now remodelled, because vastly superior to the old method of teaching figures, and shows its author to have been endowed with very large Calculation-has this organ also large, together with a literal passion for this class of studies. He is a surveyor and civil engineer.

ZERA COLBURN, that mathematical prodigy, who, at six years old, could solve mentally almost any problem propounded to him, so as to astonish the great men of his day, was probably related to the author of Colburn's arithmetic. Both doubtless derived their extraordinary mathematical genius, in common with their names, from one common ancestor. Zera's younger brother, and a nephew, have this organ large, and faculty powerful.

Anecdotes of Zera's father indicate that he too possessed this organ and gift.

MR. TAPPAN, of Newburyport, almost equalled Zera Colburn in mental arithmetic, and his father, a broker, excelled in figures.

DR. LEE, of London, Canada West, possesses superior mathematical organs and powers, as have also his ancestors for three generations, and his children have large Calculation. It comes through his mother and her father, whose names

HERSCHEL'S organ of Calculation was extraordinary, as was also its faculty, as seen in the accompanying excellent likeness of him; and his grandson, Herschel, inherits the same KIND of astronomical talents in an eminent degree.

The LEAVITT family are generally remarkable both for strong common sense and mathematical genius. Dudley Leavitt, for a long time the almanac maker of New-Hampshire, was an eminently scientific and profound man, and a great general scholar, though his forte was mathematics. His numerous relatives and descendants have been noted for superior intellect, excellent judgment, profound research, literary attainments, and especially mathematical genius. A Massachusetts branch of this talented family are all characterized by these qualities, of whom Joshua L., ex-editor of the New-York Evangelist, the Emancipator, and some other papers a powerful writer and clear-headed reasoner-is

one.

This family, also, are generally staunch REFORMERS, and noted for moral worth and progression 364,

Similar cases are constantly occurring in the author's professional practice, and are observable by all. The descend

ant of every mathematical parent, and of all deficient in this power, furnish proofs and illustrations of this hereditary law.

372. MEMORY HEREDITARY.

ELIHU BURRITT has probably the best historical, lingual, and general memory of any man living. Besides understanding over FIFTY LANGUAGES, he has at command the literary lore of the whole ancient and modern world, and accordingly has the largest organs of Individuality, Eventuality, and Form, the author has ever seen.

His maternal grandfather, HINSDALE, was a remarkable man, intrusted with town offices, a great READER, and with only ordinary advantages possessed himself of an extraordinary fund of knowledge.

Burritt's BROTHER, author of that excellent astronomical treatise, the "Geography of the Heavens," inherits a like insatiable thirst after knowledge, and facility in acquiring it, besides being extensively erudite.

A SISTER and a MATERNAL NEPHEW are also endowed with a similar power of memory, and passion for reading, as well as capability of storing their minds with knowledge.

One of this learned family, I think Elihu's brother, literally KILLED himself by study, in which he progressed with astonishing rapidity. This wonderful love of learning, and capa bility of retaining it, will undoubtedly be found to have been handed down to the Hinsdales, and throughout the various branches of their descendants, as far as it can be traced.

373. THE MUSICAL PASSION AND TALENT TRANSMITTED.

BENJ. LAMBORN manifested a musical ear and voice when only two years old; at four, his neighbors often gave him money because he sung so charmingly. He learned Log Cabin songs, Yankee Doodle, etc., by hearing them sung only wo or three times. Tune is so very large in his head that he author had a cast taken.

His brother has the same capacity and passion, as have also every one of his four brothers and sisters. His father could never turn a tune, but his mother and her father were musical geniuses.