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death, which occurred by the rupture of a blood vessel in 

 the lungs July 22, 1823.* Col. Eobert Carr undertook the 

 care of the garden, which was in most excellent condition, 

 when a committee of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 visited it in 1830. 



ADAM KUHN, M. D. 



Adam Kuhn, M. D., was born at Germantown, Phila- 

 delphia, November 17th, 1741 old style. His grandfather, 

 John Christopher Kuhn, and his father, Adam Smith Kuhn, 

 were natives of Farfeld, a small town near Heilbronn, on 

 the Neckar, in the circle of Swabia. They both came to 

 Philadelphia in September, 1733. f 



Dr. Adam Kuhn's first studies in medicine were directed 

 by his father, until the autumn of 1761, when he sailed for 

 Europe and arrived at Upsal, by the way of London, in the 

 beginning of January, 1762, having traversed Norway and 

 part of Sweden. He studied medicine and botany under 

 Linnaeus, and the other professors of the University of 

 Upsal, until July or August, 1764, when he returned to 

 London, where, it is believed, he remained a twelve- month. 

 The particular estimation in which he was held by Lin- 

 nseus will be sufficiently manifested by the letters of that 

 eminent man addressed to Dr. Kuhn, and published in the 

 8th volume of the " Eclectic Repository." They will also 

 serve to show his unremitted attention to his studies. 



At what time Dr. Kuhn went to Edinburgh cannot be 

 precisely ascertained. He took his degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine in that University the 12th day of June, 1767. 



* 1849. Darlington— MemortaZs of Bartram and Marshall, p. 288. 

 t In the main lecture hall of the Clollege of Physicians, Philadelphia, 13th and 

 Xiocust Streets, is an etching of Adam Kuhn hy Albert Rosenthal. 



