The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-02-14


Newlin township Chester County, Penn on the goth
OF March, 1879, received the degree of Doctor OF
Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, on the
10Th OF April, 1907, and in the autumn of 1911 he
removed to the Southern States. Mr. Eotts sketch
bears ample testimony to the ability and extent of his
researches. During his residence in the South he
traversed the greater part of East Florida and much
OF Georgia, on foot, in quest of plants. Many of the
specimens collected by him in that region are con-
tanned IN the Herbarum of the Chester County Cabi-
net. In 1912 he was appointed Surgeon in the
Navy of the U. S. and in 1917 he made voyage to
Buenos Ayres in national vessel, during which vow
age he made large additions to his botanical coec-
tlons BY the appointment of government, he attend
ed Major Long in his expedition to the Yellow Stone
River, upon which occasion he fell victim to the
Pulmonary Consumption. He died on the Missouri
on the LIST of September 1872 universally regretted
A more amiabe and genuine Philanthropist has sell
dom lived He was as free from guile, as the simple
nature in which he SO much delighted AT his death
his herbarium, which very large and valuable pas
sed into the hands of Zacheus Collins Esq. of Phila-
delphla, who purchased it, was understood for the
Academy of Natural Science
The next upon our list, of whose works we have
any knowledge, is DIR William Darlington, another
native OF Chester county, and whom we have the
pleasure OF numbering amongst our personal acquan-
lance. The Report above quoted says our situation
cal requirements Of DIR Darlington Happily for
the writer of this compilations he is under no such re-
srlcons, and will therefore venture to say that if DR.
Darlington is not the most eminent Botanst in Penn
sylvania he is second but to few His merit howey-
er, is well known. BY botanical explorations in the
vicinity OF West Chester, accompanied with fami-
liar and easy mode Of impartng instruction, he infs
ed love of natural science into many persons, who
are now engaged in the study of nature. His perse-
verng exertions contributed in great measure to the
formation of the Chester County Cabinet, and much
OF the success which attended their operations is to be
ascrbed TO his aror in the He deposited his
extensive and valuable Herbarium in the cabinet at
the organization of the society," and in the Botanical
department almost every thing has been supplied by
his skill and labor. In the Spring of 1926 DIR Oar
lmgton published his " Forila Ccrtrca,'' an ESSAY
towards catalogue of the Heterogeneous plants, ma
tive and naturalized growing in the vicinity of West
Chester, with brief notices of their properties and
uses, in medicine rural economy and the arts. It emu
lnerates 1856 plants which are either indigenous or
naturaized in Chester County, besides 118 which are
cultivated for useful purposes
This compilation being now extended to much
greater length than at first contemplated, and the
materials at hand being nearly exhausted, will CON
cude by observing that the research has almost in
duced me, this late day, to begin the study Of
this interesting science Be that as it may | trust
that many of our young members will enter upon it as
one that offers attractions to medical practitioners, the
artist and the curious inquirer into the secrets of ma
ture; and promises happy blending of the useful
with the agreeable.
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