Hartshorne.] ^'^^ [Oct. 11, 



judgment, In research, selection and arrangement, 

 of all the knowledge obtainable upon his subjects. In 

 neither is there manifested much originality of inven- 

 tion, discovery or suggestion. Exception may, how- 

 ever, be made to some extent upon this last point, so far 

 as to say that he always exhibited great readiness, and 

 sometimes ingenuity, in accounting for things which, 

 to many others, seemed difficult to explain. I never 

 knew him to be without a probable hypothesis, when 

 one was wanted for such a purpose, whether in pathol- 

 ogy or therapeutics, or in social or political affairs. 



Dr. Wood's mental outlook was, indeed, far from 

 being narrow, or in any sense restricted to matters 

 connected with his own profession. He was earnestly 

 and actively interested, for several years, in the estab- 

 lishment of Girard College according to the designs 

 of its endowment. There is amongst his papers, in 

 connection with this, a communication to the Philadel- 

 phia Courier and Enquirer of the date of Monday, 

 Dec. 28, 1840, a really eloquent appeal to the citizens 

 of Philadelphia, signed "Girard;" in which the philan- 

 thropist is personated as calling from his grave upon 

 those to whom his trust had been confided, to end their 

 long delay in the fulfilment of his cherished purposes 

 for the benefit of the orphans of the City and State of 

 his adoption. A few words from this paper may be 

 here not inappropriately cited, as an example of its 

 author's style. 



"I entreat you," he writes, "by our former fellow- 



