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136 ; Scientific Intelligence. 
« Whilst in the office of Prothonotary Dr. Darlington and some of his med- 
ical friends co-operated, and formed the Me sm Society Chester county, — 
an institution which has had the good effect of uniting in a fraternal uniom — 
almost all the physicians of the county. Through its pS meetin 
addresses, written communications, and debates, it has been = pate 0! 
moting the increase of medical knowledge, of establishing a rit de corps 
amongst medical men, and of removing those petty jealousies * ttich are too 
apt to arise in a profession whose coun °y — live in comparative 
tion, and have very little communication with one another. From his long” 
cote in his eethaincre and the skill sehieh he had pecs by an extensive 
e, Dr. Dar n was unanimously placed at the head of the Society, 
eins pouiticl he “held ¢ “ 1852, when he resigned and was immediately 
elected an hono 
en 
time mt beset] in exploring a route for a railroad from. 7 
Columbia railroad. 
line of p 
“In 183 “gee ae ae president of he Bank of Chester County which | 
poate he had been one of the commissioners ~be in the pe arter for 
ving subscriptions of its capital st oo and a director almost ever since 
its establishinent in 1814. He was re-elected siceailly, gee coeur in that 
ne of his death.” 
ey was so regulated, and its discounts so discreetly made, that it 
still somanied to be an instrument of good to the citizens of the ¢ ounty in 
which it was were - eames their entire confidence, and its no ‘ae were 
y ht a: n preference to those of most other banks within 
of its ciculstion, These hace results were mainly due to the fin 
abilities of the president and his old and long tried friend, David Townse! 
te cashier of the bank, a gentleman who, it is not im 
his exchanges of plants with European botanists, obtained 
oe ce of having his name conferred upon a new and interesting 
c¢ American and Rocky Mountain plants, by his friend Professor 
the learned cat talented Diector of the Royal Botanical Gardens at K 
ondon. 
eA similar honor was conferred on Dr. Darlington in 1825, b I 
DeCandolle, of Geneva, for his eminent services in the beaatiful sc 
The genus ——— to him by DeCandolle did not, however, 
c i cg cg ie ge 
friend Profescot Torrey, of New York, dedicated to him 
eauty, constitutes a w ing 
trious laborer agreeable fields ~ botanical scienc 
“To his pee oe friends it may be ] 
of ee has just succeeded in a ain it on the Atlantic slope, 
_ may soon have the pleasure of cultivating in our gardens the beaut! 
ingtonia, 
“Tt is too seldom that we find a love for natural science, or 
to The Ba. of Chester 
