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his honor, the Kuhnia, which Dr. Kuhn himself has 

 not seen, although it exists in Pensylvania. The pro- 

 fessorship of Botany is an empty title, since through- 

 out the summer there is neither lecturing nor botaniz- 

 ing. That the Congress can be obstinate in small 

 matters also, Mr. Kuhn has reason to know. During 

 the war he was for a time absent from America, and 

 coming from St. Thomas in the West Indies, a neutral 

 island, landed at New York from an English ship. 

 The Congress, to whom this scarcely seemed the most 

 direct way, would not permit him to come to Phila- 

 delphia, and he was obliged to sail back to the West 

 Indies, and make the return voyage in an American 

 ship. 



Dr. Chovet, a learned old man of much reading, and 

 in his 7Qth year full of life and enthusiasm, although not 

 a Professor has at times lectured on Anatomy, his 

 favorite study. He is particularly known for his beau- 

 tiful wax-work collection, + largely his own fabrication 

 and designed to illustrate the parts of the human body. 

 He has, in addition, a considerable number of fine 

 anatomical preparations and a notable and rare collec- 

 tion of books. 



I should tax the patience of my readers by an enu- 

 meration of all the Aesculapians and learned men of 

 Philadelphia. Those mentioned are the most conspic- 

 uous of the number there, where the labors of the 

 physician are as richly rewarded as at any place. The 

 yearly in-take of the most of these men is reckoned at 

 several thousand pounds Pensyl. Current. But their 

 greatest profit arises from the private dispensation of 

 remedies ; * to which end each physician of large prac- 



* There are, besides, several apothecarys and dealers in 



