1880.J J-"^^ [Hartshorne. 



may we not reasonably hope, that India will fall off 

 spontaneously and peaceably from her long attachment, 

 and, either as one or as several people, take her place 

 in that brotherhood of nations, which, in America, in 

 Africa, and in Australasia, will have owed their origin or 

 civilization directly or indirectly to Great Britain, and 

 will continue to revere the name and cherish the insti- 

 tutions of this mother of empires, when she herself 

 shall have fallen into the decrepitude of age, or have 

 gone to join her predecessors in the realms of 

 history?" 



A number of Biographical Memoirs, also, were writ- 

 ten by Dr. Wood. We find, in his first volume, a 

 memoir of Dr. Joseph Parrish, and one of Dr. Samuel 

 George Morton; in the second volume, of Dr. Frank- 

 lin Bache, of Frederick Beasley, D.D., and of Dr. 

 James L. Fisher. All but one of these were prepared 

 either for the American Philosophical Society, or for 

 the College of Physicians, or the Medical Society of 

 Philadelphia. 



Of scientific contributions by Dr. Wood to the Pro- 

 ceedings of .the American Philosophical Society, I find 

 record of four. The first of these was delivered as 

 an address to the Society, in i860, his second year of 

 service as its President, upon "Dangers of Hasty 

 Generalization in Science." It exemplified, as well 

 as inculcated, that cautious, although never timid 

 spirit, which becomes the true philosopher; which 

 welcomes the appearance of every promising novelty. 



