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New Jersey Agricultural Society for 1866 it is stated that the 

 legislature had appropriated $3000 to the society for prepar- 

 ing and publishing Dr. Trimble's "Treatise on the Insect Ene- 

 mies of Fruit and Fruit Trees," and that this money was to 

 be paid in yearly instalments of $1000, the secretary of the 

 society being required to report annually the manner in which 

 the money was expended. It is further stated that not a cent 

 of this money went to the author, but was used by the society 

 in publishing and purchasing copies of the book for distribu- 

 tion. Eight dollars were asked for a copy with colored plates 

 and five dollars for one without colored plates. 



In addition to being the author of Reports by the Committee 

 on Agriculture of the New Jersey legislature for 1866, Dr. 

 Trimble wrote for the newspapers and appeared on the lecture 

 platform of various societies during his time. For the fol- 

 lowing list of papers by Dr. Trimble I am indebted to Mr. 

 Andrew J. Mutchler, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History. Although aided considerably by the librarians at the 

 Newark Public Library, Rutgers College, New Jersey His- 

 torical Society and the State House, it was impossible to find 

 anv reference to an obituarv notice of Dr. Trimble. 



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However, at the suggestion of Dr. Philip P. Calvert, I wrote 

 to Dr. Ewing Jordan, editor of the Medical Alumni Catalogue 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, who very kindly and gen- 

 erously supplied me with the following: "Isaac Pirn Trimble, 

 son of Samuel and Amy (Pirn) Trimble, was born at West 

 Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on August 20, 1804, 

 and died near Cornwall, New York, September 27, 1890. He 

 entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania 

 in October, 1824, and was graduated with the degree of M.D., 

 April 7, 1826. He was a general practitioner of medicine, 

 having practiced in Chester County, Pennsylvania, but gave 

 a large portion of his attention to fruit culture. He married 

 on March 31, 1841, Jane Riggs, a daughter of Caleb S. Riggs, 

 an attorney-at-law. It is unknown that he had any issue. 

 Sources of information 'Palmer & Trimble Genealogy' and 

 Mr. Gilbert Cope, West Chester, Pa." 



