1865.] 271 [Gross. 



whose father, the Rev. C. Schaeffer, was a member of this 

 Society, requested through Mr. Briggs that the proper cor- 

 rection should be made in the published spelling of his family 

 name. 



On motion of Dr. Le Conto, the bill of Bowen & Co., for 

 three lithographic plates of Myriapoda, in the sum of three 

 hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy-two cents, was 

 ordered to be paid by the Treasurer. 



And the Society was adjourned. 



OBITUARY NOTICE OF CHARLES WILKINS 

 SHORT, M.D. 



Dr. Short was born at Greenville, Woodford County, Kentucky, 

 on the 6th of October, 1794. His father was Peyton Short, of Surry 

 County, Virginia, whose mother, Elizabeth Skipwith, was the daughter 

 of Sir William Skipwith, Baronet. His own mother was Mary 

 Symmes, daughter of John Cleves Symmes, who removed from Long 

 Island to Cincinnati, where, after having occupied various offices of 

 trust and honor, he died in 1814. Dr. Short had, beside a brother 

 and sister who both died in infancy, one brother, the late Judge John 

 Cleves Short, and one sister, the wife of Dr. Benjamin Winslow 

 Dudley, the eminent Kentucky surgeon. He had also several half 

 brothers and sisters, his father having married a second time. 



The early part of Dr. Short's life was marked by no event of par- 

 ticular importance. It was noted chiefly for his exemplary conduct 

 and love of Nature, to the development of which the wild scenery of 

 his native village was eminently conducive. With the pleasant memo- 

 ries of this much-loved home of his childhood his heart was filled to 

 his dying day. It furnished the theme for youthful poems and the 

 picture for his boyish pencil. Greenfield was for many years the coun- 

 try residence of his father, being a farm of several thousand acres, in 

 one of the most beautiful and romantic regions of Kentucky, so dis- 

 tinguished for the variety and grandeur of its scenery. It was here, 

 no doubt, that he first imbibed his love for the particular science 

 which he afterwards cultivated with so much ardor and success, and 

 which contributed so greatly not only to his happiness but his 

 reputation. 



His primary education was obtained at the school of Mr. Joshua 

 Fry, a celebrated teacher, under whose training were reared some of 



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