17-i THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



was one of the three citizens who originated the Apprentices' 

 Library of Philadelphia, in 1820. He was among the 

 incorporators of the old Philadelphia Saving Fund, and 

 the House of Refuge, Philadelphia's great reform school. 



Mr. Smith was a sincere and devoted lover of science, 

 and a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, the 

 American Philosophical Society, the Franklin Institute, and 

 one of the earliest members of the Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania. 



After leaving college he withdrew to private life, and 

 delighted in his favorite studies of botany and conchology, 

 and in his well-stored library in Cottage Row, Germantown, 

 passed many congenial days among his books. He died 

 March 29, 18S3, at the ripe age of nearly ninety-one years. 

 For a long time Daniel B. Smith taught at Haverford 

 College, where he left the impress of his character on 

 students and institution alike. "^ 



ELIAS DURAND. 



Elias Durand t was born in Mayence, France, June 25 

 (Janvier?), 179-1, and died on the loth of August, 1873. 

 His education was commenced at the school in his native 

 village, where he began his studies preparatory to pharmacy 

 which he took at Paris in 1812. He served in the medical 

 corps of the first Napoleon and was present at the bloody 

 battles of Lutzen, Bautzen, Hanau, Katsbach and Leipzig. 

 He gathered a specimen of Menyanthes trifoliata amid the 

 roar of the cannon at Leipzig, showing his strong botanical 



* 1892. GARRKTT—Histoi-y of Haverford College, 155; portrait, Go. See also 

 The Gardener's Monthly (Meehan), XXV, p. 158 (1883). 



t Actes de la Societe Linneene de Bordeaux, XXIX, 2e liv., 1873, par M. Charles 

 des Moulins. See also Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club, IV : 45. An oil painting of 

 Durand hangs in the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 



