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Carolina ; the Moravian bishop, Jacob Van Vleck, and Dr. 

 Christian Miiller, of Harmony, Pa. One of his most valued 

 correspondents was Dr. Baldwin, of South Carolina, and their 

 correspondence has been published by William Darlington 

 in a book entitled Reliquiae Baldwinianx.'^ He entertained 

 largely at his home at Lancaster. Alexander von Humboldt 

 and Aime Bonpland sought him there on their return from 

 their long journey in Spanish America. 



The University of Pennsylvania conferred on him the 

 degree of Master of Arts in 1780, and Princeton College that of 

 Doctor of Divinity in 1787. He was made a member of the 

 American Philosophical Society on January 22, 1785. He 

 received diplomas and awards from the Imperial Academy 

 of Erlangen, 1791 ; the Society of Friends of Natural 

 History, Berlin, 1798; the Westphalian Natural History 

 Society, 1798 ; the Phytographic Society of Gottingen,. 

 1802 ; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia^ 

 1814; the Society for the Promotion of the Useful Arts^ 

 Albany, N. Y., 1815 ; the Physiographical Society of Lund, 

 Sweden, 1815 ; and the New York Historical Society, April 

 12, 1815, not quite six weeks before his death, at Lancaster, 

 May 23, 1815. 



MOSES MARSHALL. 



Moses Marshall, f son of James Marshall (the younger 

 brother of Humphry), was born in West Bradford, Chester 

 County, on the 30th of November, 1758. After receiving a 

 tolerable education, both English and classical, he studied 



* 1843. Da.^iasgto'S— Reliquiae Baldwiniance. Philadelphia. Kimber et 

 Sharpless, pp. 346, effigies Baldwini. 



t This sketch was written by Dr. Wm. T. Sharpless, West Chester Daily News, 

 Nov. 22, 1895. 



