THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. '247 



sale and for herbarium exchanges. He was Secretary of 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and a member of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences. He died November 



H. DETWILER. 



H. Detwiler, M. D., of Easton, Pennsylvania, now 

 deceased, collected largely years ago around Hellertown, 

 and sent his plants to Europe. Some of his plants are 

 found in the great Meissner Herbarium of Columbia 

 College. 



EDWIN FUSSELL. 



Edwin Fussell, M. D., was born in Chester County, 

 Pennsylvania, and was a friend of Joshua Hoopes. He 

 was an enthusiastic botanist, influencing the younger 

 generation. He died in Media in 1880. 



GEORGE MARTIN. 



Dr. George Martin f was born near Claymoiit, Delaware 

 County, Pennsylvania, in 1826, and received his early edu- 

 cation at the Westtown Friends' School, after which he 

 became a student at the University of Pennsylvania, where 

 he graduated in medicine about 1847. He first practiced 

 his profession at Concordville, Delaware County, where he 

 remained about three years. Owing to delicate health he 

 next became connected with the Fifth Street Dispensary, 

 in which he remained some five years, at the expiration of 

 which time he engaged with his cousin, John M. Sharpless, 

 in the latter's chrome works in the City of Chester. During 



* The Gardener's Monthly (Meehan), I, p. 11. 



t Journal of Mycology, II: 137. Signed J. B. E. (J. B. Ellis). 



