Botany and Zoology. 137 
ery of new and ars anabae species and varietie 
“Tn the year 1837, Dr. Darlington published his ‘ Flora Cestrica, a descri 
tion of the flowering shits 6 hester county, which was a new edition of 
his former Bobi muc se and eet mprove 
“This work is regarded as one of the most complete local Floras exta 
his soil. This work is one of the prac tical benefits which 
al Whe nce sometimes besto és upon mankind, and there is good reason Wg 
believe that its influence has already seodiend a beneficial sleet upon hus 
: bandry, not only in Chester county but oe on ere, 
“The deep interest he always felt in every votary of natural science, 
with a vw personal shicbinest for a friend, mean him 
out 1843,) o collect together the letters, memoranda, &c. 
an Baldwin, a native of his own cou ope te et was shass “passtoniely 
ifficul- 
ey had to encounter in etd early settlement of the hese: during their 
expeditions into the wilderness in the prosecution of their favorite science. 
_ The former home of Humphrey Marshall still stands at Marshalton, in Chester 
and the rare curious forest trees that he ted i 
is gtebicntees e of ce ale botanists affords a ee ing into 
angers they 
have grown with years, until es have become objects of 
votary of botani cal learni 
Por Cestrica,’ revised and Hecottiticted on t fistated 
which seems to be the system most mi itd adopted by siete 
at the present day. Besides thle in connection pre some of the 
inded men of his neighborhood, he was en ieee in si tatter 5 years in 
position of a work descriptive of the otc 0 of the satin sel of 
County in all its branches. 
his Som * soak the same love of science and ‘pean which had 
at foal cag «Te ocd ch beyond the usual period 
_ Aw. Jour, Sct—Sxconp Senres, Vor. XXXVI, No. 106.—Juy, 1863, 
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