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 DARLINGTON

DAUGHERTY

Board of Canal Commissioners to unite two great lakes with the Atlantic, yet in the midst of much civic business he finds time to botanize and found the Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science and publish his "Flora Cestrica" or catalogue of plants growing round West Chester, Pennsylvania. Also with some confreres he founds and becomes president of the Medical Society of Chester County.

That which pleased him most was the perpetuation of his name in flower form. Prof. De Candolle of Geneva named a genus after him, but it did not prove to be sufficiently distinct, and another friend, Prof. Torrey of New York, dedi- cated to him a finer plant, of the order Sarraceniacese, which grows in California. Darlington certainly deserved the honor, for a more generous man never lived. This was shown in his gathering together all the letters and memoranda of Dr. William Baldwin, a zealous botanist, who died still young while on an ex- pedition up the Missouri. He called the book "Reliquiae Baldwiniana?," 1843, and six years later made all botanists his debtors by his loving work shown in "The Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall," 1849, the careful foot-notes alone constituting valuable references to the botanical side of that period. But in between these two volumes came another written as a re- sult of his observation of the unscientific farming going on around him, a book which proved of genuine utility ; this was his "Agricultural Botany," 1847.

Moreover, he willed that his herbarium and all his botanical works should go to his own county museum, and these are still in the museum of the West Chester State Normal School, now too little known, like many another collection, but while the donor lived they were a source to him of continual pleasure, adding zest to his correspondence with fellow botan- ists on both sides the Atlantic, and learned societies — more than forty of them — elected him a member.

The loss of a soldier son of fever off the

African coast anil of his wife occurred in 1846-6, and in the spring of 1S62 Dar- lington had a slight attack of paralysis, followed in 1863 by another from which he died on Thursday, April 23, 1863, nearly eighty-one years old and with mind still unimpaired. He was buried in Oaklands Cemetery, Philadelphia, and on his tomb was carved:

Plantee Cestrienses

quas

dilexit atque illustravit

Super Tumulum ejus

Semper floreant.

A portrait is to be seen in "The Botanists of Philadelphia," Harshberger, 1899, and in the Van Kaathoven Col- lection of Portraits, Surgeon-general's Library, Washington, District of Columbia. D. W.

Tr. Med. Soc. Penn., Phila., 1863.

Daugherty, Philander (1835-1904).

Dr. Philander Daugherty, a pioneer Kansas surgeon, was born on March 10, 1S35, in Greencastle, Indiana. His father came from Ireland when a boy and afterwards married Harriett McNary of Marysville, Kentucky, but died when Philander was four and the boy did as most medical aspirants have done, just got what education he could between farm work and then taught school. But when sixteen he studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. William McNary, in Martinsville, Illinois, then attended Rush Medical College, taking his M. D. there and finally settling down to practice and remaining in Junction City, Kansas, for thirty-five years.

He was one of the first in Kansas to take up antiseptic and aseptic surgery in Kansas and of the first to do total extirpation of the breast for carcinoma, his pioneer surgical work being remark- able for the period in which it was done. He also wrote a considerable number of articles, not only on his own subjects but in political, sociologic and philosophic vein.

On March 4, 1S55, he married Susan