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that the specimens he had accumulated since 1868 should be 

 incorporated with the main collection. His botanical 

 library he directed to be deposited in the herbarium room 

 of the Academy, where it can be available for the working 

 botanists. 



Mr. Durand was personally an exceedingly courteous 

 and genial gentleman, who probably did as much for 

 botany by the encouragement he gave others, as by any 

 direct contributions he made himself. 



Mr. Durand was one of the curators of the American 

 Philosophical Society and honorary or correspondent 

 member of the College of Pharmacy of Philadelphia, of the 

 Societe Pharmaceutique de Paris, American Pharmaceutical 

 Association, Societe d'Acclimation de Paris, Societe Lineenne 

 de Bordeaux, Academy of Natural Sciences of Buffalo, the 

 Linnsean Society of Lancaster. 



EZRA MICHENER. 



Ezra Michener, M. D.,* was born November 24, 1794, in 

 London Grove Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on a 

 farm successively owned and occupied by four generations. 

 His father, Mordecai, and his mother, Alice (Dunn) Michener, 

 had children Robert, Lydia, Phoebe and Ezra. Ezra studied 

 in his early years under Daniel Hoopes and his successor 

 John Mull, who taught nothing beyond the rudiments 

 of reading, writing, arithmetic with a smattering of book- 

 keeping. Ezra Michener's innate fondness for plants and 

 flowers was intensified by his frequent visits to Har- 

 mony Grove, but he had no botanical book to follow ; 

 indeed, there does not seem to have been any book on the 



* 1893. Autobiographical Notes from the Life and Letters of Ezra Michener, 

 M. D. Philadelphia. Friends' Book Association. 



