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A life contributor to the Philadelphia Dispensary, December 1802. 

 American Philosophical Society, July 1804. 

 Humane Society of Philadelphia, July 1805. 

 Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture, May 1805. 

 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, May 1809. 



Academy of Natural Sciences, (Vice President at his death,) March 1815. 

 Honorary Member of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York, July 1817. 

 Honorary Member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, June 1829. 

 Chosen President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Novem- 

 ber 1828. 



He died in Philadelphia, June 12th 1831, of paralysis. 



Samuel Latham Mitchill, M. D. was, in every sense of 

 the word, one of the most untiring friends that ever Natural His- 

 tory possessed in any country. We understand that his friend 

 Dr. Ackerly, the depositary of his valuable papers, is preparing 

 a biography of him, at the request of the Lyceum of Natural 

 History of New York, of which he was the first President. His 

 writings have been so various, and he has enriched with his 

 papers so many periodicals, that at present we shall make no par- 

 ticular reference, except to his well known memoir, on the New 

 York fishes. We know of no American scientific name that has 

 been more extensively and advantageously diflTused, both abroad 

 and at home, than the name of Mitchill. We sincerely offer this 

 slight tribute to his memory ; it is due to the worth of one whom 

 we knew well, and of whom it is impossible to think, without a 

 lively remembrance of his truly amiable and benevolent charac- 

 ter. He died on the 7th of September, at the city of New York, 

 in the 68th year of his age. 



Solomon W. Conrad, was a learned and much respected mem- 

 ber of the Society of Friends ; he was Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Pennsylvania, a member of the American Philoso- 

 phical Society, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phi- 

 ladelphia. He died on the 8th October, 1831, of phthysis pul- 

 monalis, in the fifty-second year of his age. 



Nicholas G)llin, D. D., Rector of the Swedish Churches in 

 Pennsylvania, came to America about the year 1771. This 

 venerable pastor informed one of our friends sometime ago, that 

 before ho left his native country, Sweden, he was a pupil of 



