1864.] ;3-j|:l [James. 



He was ever ready and always disposed to contribute to the ad- 

 vancement of any literary or scientitic enterprise by public addresses 

 and lectures, and he was frequently called upon for such gratuitous 

 labor. Wore than twenty addresses, mostly upon botanical science or 

 kindred subjects, were delivered by him, on various occasions, and af- 

 terwards published. His constant desire was to educate the public 

 luind to a love of scientific pursuits, he therefore lost no opportunity 

 of communicating his own zeal to the young around him. 



In the spring of 1862, Dr. Darlington was attacked by paralysis, 

 from which he partially recovered, but the following winter another 

 stroke rendered him helpless, and he gradually declined, until the 

 23d of April, 1868, when he quietly expired at the advanced age of 

 nearly eighty one, in the town of West Chester, and only a few miles 

 distant from his birthplace. 



Twenty years before his death, he wrote his own epitaph, as he re- 

 marks, in his biography, " I had a desire to prevent the partiality of 

 surviving friends from resorting to commonplace cemetrical eulogy, 

 and yet had a wish for some botanical allusion, to meet the eye of 

 any lover of plants who might happen to visit the spot M'hile the me- 

 morial remained, so I prepared the following, which is intended as 

 the expression of a kindly wish or ejaculation on the part of the 

 future botanist who may see and recite it as he rambles by. It is to 

 be an isolated paragraph below the name and dates, thus : 



Plantae Cestrienses, 



QUAS 



DILEXIT ATQUE ILLUSTRAVIT, 



SUPER TUMULUiM EJUS, 



SEMPER FLOllEANT I" 



His remains repose in a secluded part of the beautiful Oaklands 

 Cemetery of West Chester, to which they were borne by a crowd of 

 his sorrowing neighbors, on the Sunday following his decease. He 

 was mourned not only as a public benefactor, but as, a friend, kind, 

 affectionate, and charitable, a consistent communicant of theEpiscopiiS 

 Church, a truly Christian gentleman, in whose death each felt a per- 

 sonal loss. A wise man, his literary attainments and learning were 

 never obtrusively thrust forward; the humblest listener separated 

 charmed by his simplicity of manner and quaintness of conversation : 

 thus he made friends of all, yet in his quiet dignity he seemed the 



