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city, and soon after became a member of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences. 



Under the auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 he delivered, in conjunction with Dr. Barnes, during the 

 spring of 1814 and the succeeding spring of 1815, two 

 courses of popular lectures on botany. Upwards of two 

 hundred ladies, besides a considerable number of gentlemen, 

 attended the first course, and the audience to the second 

 was still more numerous. He also lectured on comparative 

 osteology and ichthyology. An enthusiastic attachment to 

 natural history, and an anxious solicitude for honorable 

 distinction, prompted him to intellectual exertions, incom- 

 patible with his delicate constitution, naturally disposed to 

 pulmonary disease. He availed himself of the mild winter 

 of a southern climate, and accordingly left Philadelphia 

 never to return. He died at Charleston, South Carolina, 

 May 18, 1817, aged twenty-six years. 



DANIEL B. SMITH. 



Daniel B. Smith was born July 14, 1792. He received his 

 literary education in the school of John Griscom, at Burling- 

 ton, New Jersey, at that day a somewhat famous seminary. 

 After leaving school, he studied pharmacy with John 

 Biddle, in Philadelphia. Upon acquiring a knowledge of 

 chemistry and practical pharmacy, he was for a while 

 partner of his preceptor, and after his decease, which soon 

 occurred after Daniel B. Smith became of age, entered into 

 partnership with William Hodgson, a man of considerable 

 erudition. 



He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia College 

 of Pharmacy, and for twenty-five years its president. He 



