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Within the short term of thirty months, she has lost 

 Vahl, her greatest botanist; and, indeed, the greatest 

 botanist of any country, since the death of Linnaeus* : 

 and now she deplores the loss of her Fabricius. 

 These are not small losses : for much of the " glory 

 (if not, as Dr. Johnson says, " the chief glory") of 

 every people arises from its authors." Two such ge- 

 niuses as Vahl and Fabricius can hardly be expected to 

 arise, in any one country, in less than a century. 



II. Dr. John Redman died, in Philadelphia, on the 

 18th of March last, at the advanced age of eighty-six. 

 He was a native of Pennsylvania, and finished his medi- 

 cal education at Ley den, where he received the degree 

 of Doctor of Medicine, in the year 1748. On this oc- 

 casion, he published an inaugural dissertation De Abor- 

 tu. On his return to America, he commenced the prac- 

 tice of physic, and for many years (not less than forty) 

 he was extensively engaged in the arduous duties of his 

 profession. 



On the appearance of the yellow- fever in Philadel- 

 phia, in the year 1793, Dr. Redman was one of the few- 

 physicians, then living in the city, who had had an op- 

 portunity of seeing the same malignant malady in its 

 former visit to the city, in the year 1762. At the re- 

 quest of the College of Physicians, of which he was at 

 that time, and for several years after, the President, lit 



* See Journal, vol. II. part Lpage 145, &c 



