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ciaus, of the Pathological Society, and of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences. The transactions of some, if not of all of 

 these societies, have been enriched by contributions from 

 his pen. During the late war he established the Cuyler 

 Hospital, at Germantown, of which he was one of the 

 surgeons in charge. Dr. Darrach married Sarah Morris, 

 granddaughter of Robert Morris, the financier of the Revo- 

 lution. 



With Dr. Darrach botany has always been a side issue, 

 having first begun its study because in need of out-door 

 exercise. At the suggestion of Dr. Joseph Leidy, Dr. Dar- 

 rach made a careful study of our local flora, in connection 

 with Dr. Leidy, Charles E. Smith and Aubrey Smith, pub- 

 lishing the result of his researches and collections in the 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences for 1853, and 

 later in a pamphlet, entitled " Plants Appearing in Flower 

 in the Neighborhood of Philadelphia, from February to 

 November." Printed in 1882. 



JOB B. ELLIS. 



The subject of the present sketch * was born at Potsdam, 

 New York, January 21, 1829. He evinced a remarkable 

 fondness for study at an early age, and the time not spent 

 at school or at work on his father's farm, was devoted to 

 reading. At the age of sixteen he taught the winter school 

 at Stockholm, St. Lawrence County. Here the lad received 

 for his services ten dollars a month and " boarded around." 

 Five of the ten dollars was paid in cash, the other five was 

 to be paid in grain. It was just twenty years afterward 

 when the last of the grain was turned over to him. Having 



* From the Botanical Gazette, vol. XV., No. 11, p. 299. F. W. Anderson, 1890. 



