[Kusehenberger. 



Building Fund. January, 18G7, and was regularly reelected till the close 

 of his l,fe. The work of the Board was not in harmony with his previous 

 experience or taste. For this reason, perhaps, and because he unre 

 servedly confided in the business ability of his colleagues rather than on 

 his own, he d.d not warmly participate in it, though none was more 

 desirous of its satisfactory achievement. 



During his student days, and for years after graduation, Dr Leidy 

 was generally held to be poor ; but he had already acquired a local 

 reputation on account of his knowledge of natural history, and was re- 

 garded to be a young scientist of unusual promise. He attracted the 

 attention of some prominent citizens, among them Dr. James Rush to 

 whose beneficence the city is indebted for the Eidgeway branch of Ihe 

 Philadelphia Library. Mrs. Rush was frequently pleased to make him a 

 .on at her evening parties. At that time many persons were pleased to 

 believe that he strongly resembled the conventional likeness of our 

 baviour. Both Dr. and Mrs. Rush were his friends and admirers durinsr 

 their lives. ^ 



Mrs. Rush died October 23, 1857. After that event Dr. Leidv oflen 

 dined tete-a-tete with Dr. Rush. 



Dr. Rush died May 36, 1869. Dr. Leidy was invited to be a pall- 

 bearer at the funeral, and at the same time received an intimation that he 

 should not fail to be present. He accepted the invitation. 



A few days afterwards he was greatly surprised by the receipt of a 

 bank cheque for $500. He learned that Dr. Rush had named those 

 friends whom he desired to be his pallbearers, and that he had instructed 

 the executor of his estate to give $500 to each of those who served in that 

 capacity at his funeral. 



At its summer commencement of 1869, the Franklin and Marshall 

 College. Lancaster. Pa., conferred upon him the honorary deo-ree of 

 Legum Doctor— Lh.Tf. j o ui 



In the spring of 1871 he was appointed Professor of Natural History in 

 Swarthmore College, eleven miles from the city, in Delaware county and 

 lectured there at 10 o'clock a.m., at first once in the week and subse- 

 quently twice. He resigned the office in June, 1885, but continued his 

 connection with the institution as emeritus or retired professor 



The Secretary of War invited him. May 6, 1873, to be the senior mem- 

 ber of the scientific corps during an exploration of the route of the Pacific 

 Railroad. This invitation was declined. 



In December, 1874, he was ofleredtheHersey Professorship of Anatomy 

 in the University of Harvard, at an annual salary of $4000 



He passed the summer of 1875 in Europe, visiting museums in London 

 Pans, Berlin, and mingling socially with renowned professors and distin- 

 guished votaries of natural science wherever he halted. 



He spent the greater part of two seasons exploring the country around 

 Fort Bridger, the Uinta mountains and Saltlake basin in search of 

 materials for his treatise on Fresh Water Rhizopods of North America 



