WILLIAM DARLINGTON 117 



they are still in the museum of the West Chester 

 State Normal School, now, like many another 

 valuable collection, too little known, but erst- 

 while a fount of continual joy to the great col- 

 lector, adding zest to his correspondence with 

 fellow-botanists on both sides the Atlantic, and 

 the more than forty learned societies which 

 elected him to membership. 



Darlington had a great sorrow in 1845, when 

 his son, who had served in the navy for seventeen 

 years, died of disease contracted on the coast of 

 Africa. Mrs. Darlington died shortly after, and 

 in the spring of 1862 Darlington had a slight 

 attack of paralysis, followed in 1863 by another, 

 from which he died on Thursday, April 23, 1863, 

 nearly eighty-one years old and with mind still 

 unimpaired. He was buried in Oaklands Ceme- 

 tery, Philadelphia, and on his tomb is carved: 



Plantae Cestrienses 



quas 



dilexit atque illustravit 



Super Tumulum ejus 



Semper Floreant. 



Tr. Med. Soc. Perm., Phila., 1863. 



Memorial of William Darlington, by W. T. James. West Chester, 

 1863. 



