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the seeds of the Kuhnia, which perished in our 

 garden." 



It would be pleasant to know more of Kuhn, 

 but the short-lengthed, long-adjectived, pompous 

 biographies in old medical journals do not give 

 much. One writer calls him " a discreet young 

 physician, not remarkable for powers of imagi- 

 nation, but his talent for observation profound; a 

 lover of music, abstemious in diet, neat in per- 

 son." 



He did not marry until he was thirty-nine, 

 after which it is gratifying to learn " he had two 

 sons, respectable characters," by his wife Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of Isaac Hartman of St. Croix. 



When seventy-three he " grieved " his patients 

 by giving up practice, and in June, 1817, began to 

 feel conscious that life was ending. After a short 

 confinement of three weeks to the house, but 

 suffering no pain, Adam Kuhn passed away on 

 July 5, in full serenity of mind and heart. 



Eclectic Repertory, Philadelphia, 1818. Dr. S. Powell Griffiths. 

 Stoever's Life of Linnaeus. 



Autobiography of Charles Caldwell, Philadelphia, 1855. 

 The Botanists of Philadelphia, 1899. Harshberger. 



