CHARLES WILKINS SHORT! 
Dr. CHarLes Wiikins Snort died at his residence at 
Louisville, Kentucky, on the 7th of March last, in the sixty- 
ninth year of his age. He was born in Woodford County of 
that State, on October 6, 1794, was educated in the school 
of Mr. Joshua Frye, near Danville, —a distinguished teacher 
of those days, — pursued his professional studies mainly in 
Philadelphia, where he took the degree of M. D. from the 
University of Pennsylvania in the year 1815. For ten years 
he devoted himself to the practice of medicine, until in the 
year 1825 he was called to the chair of Materia Medica and 
Medical Botany in the Transylvania University at Lexington, 
where he contributed to the reputation of that celebrated 
school. Relinquishing medical practice, for which he had no 
liking, he devoted his powers with zeal and success to the 
more congenial duties of his professorship, and to the cultiva- 
tion of botany, the favorite pursuit of his life. At the close 
of the year 1838 he removed, along with some of his distin- 
guished colleagues, to Louisville, filling the same chair in the 
University of that city until 1849, when he retired from 
public functions. The remainder of his honorable life was 
passed at Hayfield, at his tasteful residence near Louisville, in 
the bosom of his family; in the exercise of kindly but unos- 
tentatious hospitality and of all good offices ; in quietly enjoy- 
ing and in causing others to enjoy the blessings of a hand- 
some fortune, to which by inheritance, combined with the 
fruits of his own industry, he now attained, and in the culti- 
vation of the “amiable science” to which he was devotedly 
attached. 
Dr. Short’s botanical publications were neither large nor 
many. They were chiefly articles contributed to the “Tran- 
' American Journal of Science and Arts, 2 ser., xxxv. 451. (1863.) 
