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Bai'traiii ( iar(Kn. tlu' lirs( iiisjtirini;- tliou^ht in the 

 movement, was, natui-ally, tlic tirst park taken. Stenton 

 Park, the estate of Logan, the Seeretary of tlie (Vnnnion- 

 wealth under Penn, himself a great botanist, as the natural 

 order Loganiace^r so well commemorates, was next placed on 

 the plan. Then followed Stouton, Juniata, Frankford, 

 Waterview, Treaty Elm— the spot on which Penn made his 

 celebrated treaty with the Indians— John Dickinson, 

 AVharton, Mifflin, Harrowgate— the site of the famous Har- 

 rowgate Springs— Vernon, Womrath, Ontario, Pleasant Kill, 

 Fotterall, Weccacoe and Starr Gardens. 



Next to Bartram Garden, the crowning success of the 

 whole movement, so largely due to :\Ir. Meehan's efforts, is 

 Vernon Park, a tract of twelve acres in Germantown. 

 Although recently in the family of the Wisters, it was 

 originally laid out and planned by Meng, one of the earlv 

 settlers in Germantown, a wealthy banker and a lover of 

 rare plants. Under his patronage Kin, an early botanical 

 explorer, traveled. 



It was largely Mr. Meehan's influence in Councils 

 which procured an appropriation to secure the exhibits at 

 the World's Fair, and which were later incorporated by Act 

 of Councils, approved by the Mayor, June 15, 1894, into 

 the Philadelphia Museums. :\Ir. Meehan has been tlie 

 constant friend of the institution, since its inception, in pro- 

 curing necessary legislation. 



Professor Meehan, as a scientific man, has corresponded 

 with most of the scientists of prominence in l)oth Europe 

 and America. A close correspondence was maintained 

 with Charles Darwin, who relied on Mr. ^Median's obser- 



