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old Quaker should have become soldiers, and died in the military 

 service of their country !" Miss Collinson says : 



" We were always brought up to venerate the name of Peter Collin- 

 son. My dear father (who truly was worthy of the name, and 

 inherited the virtues, if not the extent of knowledge, of the great 

 Peter,} was excessively fond of, and understood his garden." 



In closing this appendix we borrow from Dr. Wood's late centen- 

 nial discourse upon the Pennsylvania Hospital, his reference to Dr. 

 Fothergill, the most intimate friend of Peter Collinson ; and whose 

 relations to the Hospital were analogous to those of Peter to the 

 Library. 



" It would be unpardonable to pass without notice the name of 

 Dr. John Fothergill, of London, who was untiring in his good offices, 

 not only subscribing largely of money, and making valuable dona- 

 tions of books, anatomical models, drawings, &c., and exerting his 

 influence in England in various ways for the good of the Hospital." 



In a note to this interesting discourse he gives us a particular 

 description of the character and important influence of these donations. 



Dr. Wood brings prominently to view how much one of our first 

 and best public Institutions owes to the efforts of FRIENDS, and par- 

 ticularly to a London Friend, who was also Peter Collinson's friend. 



