4th, and lastly. In your intercourse with your patients, I have only to suggest to you" to act towards them, as you would wish them, in like circumstances, to act towards you." Under the direction of this heaven-born precept, you will be prompt and regular in your attendance upon them; you will treat them, at all times, with delicacy and respect; you will sympathize in their sufferings; you will forgive the changes in their tempers and conduct, which are sometimes induced by sickness; you will forbear to oppress the unfortunate; and you will be strictly just in your demands for remuneration for your services from the affluent. By these means, you will endear yourselves to your patients, and impart a dignity and splendour to your characters, which they never can possess from an exclusive display of talents and knowledge.

You have this day, gentlemen, ceased to be our pupils; but you have acquired a new, and more intimate, relation to us. You have become our younger brothers in the profession of medicine; and, as such, we invite you to command our fraternal services.

In behalf of my colleagues, and of the fathers of the institution, I bid you adieu.

BIOGRAPHY.

I. Memorandums of the Life and Writings of Mr. JOHN CLAYTON, the celebrated Botanist of Virginia.

"DR. MADISON presents his respects to Dr. Barton, with the following particulars relative to Mr. Clayton, which Dr. Galt has been so kind as to collect.

"Mr. John Clayton, the botanist, was born at Fulham, in the county of Kent, in Great-Britain. He came to Virginia, with his father, in the year 1705, and was, most probably, then in his twentieth year. His father was an eminent lawyer, and was appointed attorney-general of Virginia.

"Young Clayton was put into the office of Mr. Peter Beverly, who was clerk, or prothonotary, for Gloster-county, in Virginia. He succeeded Mr. Beverly as clerk of that county, and filled the office fiftyone years. He died on the fifteenth of December, 1773, in his eighty-eighth year.