258 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



1872 to 1880, Professor Hunt did much good work. He 

 was the first professor appointed under the by-laws of the 

 Academy to the chair of histology and microscopic tech- 

 nology, and although master of the most refined technique, 

 he never received a large share of popular recognition on 

 account of his native modesty and reserve. 



JAMES DARRACH. 



James Darrach w^as born in Philadelphia, December 8, 

 1828, the son of Dr. William Darrach, a descendant of 

 William Bradford, the first printer in Pennsylvania, and 

 the founder of the first newspaper in New York, and 

 Margaret Monro, descended from Colonel Haslitt, who fell 

 at the battle of Princeton. He was educated at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree 

 of A. B. in 1849, and that of M. D. in 1852, having spent a 

 part of the interval in his father's office. He settled first in 

 Philadelphia, where he resided till 1861, when he removed 

 to Germantown. After graduating he studied analytical 

 chemistry in Booth's Laboratory, for six or nine months. 

 He was connected wdth the Pennsylvania Hospital as resi- 

 dent for three months and as surgeon for eighteen months, 

 including the period of what is known as the yellow fever 

 epidemic of 1854. 



He delivered a course of lectures on the practice of 

 medicine in the Philadelphia Medical School,^ and was 

 Lecturer on Materia Medica in the Philadelphia School of 

 Medicine until it dissolved. He was Assistant Demonstrator 

 of Anatomy and Clinical Assistant in the University of 

 Pennsylvania for four years. He is a member of the Phila- 

 delphia County Medical Society, of the College of Physi- 



