Left: Statues of Otis and Story.

ing obelisk has commemorated a career less worth remembering than that of Hannah Adams.
      The Spurzheim monument, on Central Avenue, challenges attention not only by its conspicuous location, but by the simplicity of its inscription, the single word, "Spurzheim." It commemorates the professional zeal and scientific attainments of Dr. John Gaspar Spurzheim, a Prussian by birth, who was distinguished in the first third of the present century as an enthusiastic expounder of phrenology. He propagated his 'views with ardor and with no little success on the Continent and in England, and came to this country early in 1832. Here his lectures attracted so much attention, and the value of his services to medical science — apart from the theories with which his name was particularly associated — was so widely recognized, that on his untimely death, from overwork and exhaustion, in November of that year, the Boston Medical Association as a body escorted his remains from the Old South Church to the Granary Burying-Ground, where they were temporarily placed. This monument was erected through the liberality of Hon. William Sturgis.
      Another striking monument on Central Avenue is that to the memory of William Frederick Hamden, whose claim to distinction as the founder of the express business in America is attested by the fact that the express companies of the United States joined in this tribute to him. The monument is a massive urn supported upon a base and covered by a granite canopy sustained by four fluted columns. On the sides of this canopy are cut the words, "Faith," "Hope," "Justice," "Charity"; and on two sides of the base are figures in relief illustrating phases of the express business. In front is the reclining figure of a dog. Under the name is the appropriate inscription, "Because the king's business required haste." Some idea of the energy of the man thus commemorated may be obtained from the fact that he was only thirty-one when he died, in 1845. The monument was erected in 1866.
      Not far from the Hamden monument, also on Central Avenue, is the monument to the memory of Hosea Ballon, the eminent Universalist clergyman: a fine erect figure, with book in hand, standing on a granite pedestal, which has no other inscription than the name "Ballou" in large raised letters in front. So simple an inscription seems like a challenge to posterity.