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Natural History, of New York ; American Medical Asso- 

 ciation, American Philosophical Society, Societe d'Hygiene, 

 Paris; Amer. I. Sci. Kwai, Japan (Tokio). He is still 

 actively engaged in the practice of medicine, and as a 

 professor in the most prominent medical school of the 

 country occupies an exalted place among professional men. 



USELMA C. SMITH. 



Uselma C. Smith, a local botanist of repute, was born 

 June 9, 1841, in the West, where his parents had removed 

 from Philadelphia. He was educated in the public schools 

 of the Western Reserve. He studied law and was admitted 

 to the bar January 16, 1864. In August, 1868, he was 

 elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, and as the Solicitor, Member of the Council 

 and Chairman of the Finance Committee takes an active 

 interest in the welfare of the institution. After the 

 lamented death of Dr. J. B. Brinton, Mr. Smith was elected 

 President of the Philadelphia Botanical Club, an institu- 

 tion of working botanists, founded by Dr. Brinton. 



ADOLPH WILLIAM MILLER. 



Adolph William Miller * was born, October 8, 1841, at 

 Berge, in the former Kingdom of Hanover (now a province 

 of Prussia), in a building occupied as a pharmacy by his 

 father, William H. Miller ; this store being a branch (Filial 

 Apotheke) of the one belonging to his maternal grandfather, 

 Franz von Lengerken, at Ankum, some three miles distant. 

 He came to this country with his parents in the fall of 

 1848, a t the age of seven years. Landing at New Orleans, 



* Published in Alumni Report (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy), XXXH ■ 

 p. 79. January, ;.896, with portrait. 



