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discrimination and judgment. The University of Penn- 

 sylvania, the Pennsylvania Hospital, the Philadelphia 

 College of Physicians, the American Philosophical 

 Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences were the 

 main recipients of his liberal donations during his life- 

 time ; and several of these institutions also became 

 principal legatees in his will. 



Nor ought it to abate our appreciation of this mu- 

 nificent liberality, that, since his decease, the expected 

 pecuniary value of these legacies has not been fully 

 met, on account of the depreciation of securities,* 

 and the inability of his cranberry plantation in New 

 Jersey as yet to realize the large profits which he an- 

 ticipated from it. 



This last project, it appears needful to believe, was 

 probably the least fortunate of Dr. Wood's undertak- 

 ings. So sanguine, however, was he in regard to it, 

 that he added for its extension a large number of acres 

 to his farm at Greenwich, at prices larger than their 

 owners, his neighbors, thought fit to ask of him. Here, 

 as usual, mercenary aims were the farthest from his 

 thoughts. 



Mention has been before made, incidentally, of Dn 

 Wood's inclination towards a certain stateliness in his 

 mode of living. In traveling during the summer 

 through the State of Pennsylvania, and even in going 



*His will was made in 187 1, when gold was at a premium of 12^ per cent.,, 

 and all other kinds of property were at a correspondingly high, if not higher range 

 of prices, compared to those following the resumption of specie payments, and 

 especially the depression which succeeded the "panic" of 1873. 



