CADWALADER GOLDEN 



1688-1776 

 Coldenia procumbens — LINNAEUS 



A link in the botanic chain is a young Scotch 

 doctor, " a truly great philosopher and a very 

 great and ingenious botanist," who came to be 

 Lieutenant Governor of New York. This was 

 Cadwalader, son of the Rev. Alexander Golden, 

 minister in Dunse, near Edinburgh, born Febru- 

 ary 17, 1688. 



His father, probably a learned and leisured 

 man, personally directed the boy's education, 

 then sent him to Edinburgh University, where 

 he graduated M. D., in 1705. During the three 

 following years he devoted his attention " to 

 medicine and mathematical science " — in the 

 quiet little town of Dunse I should imagine. The 

 news which came, from time to time, of William 

 Penn's colony found an eager hearkener in young 

 Golden, and the next definite information is that 

 he practised successfully in Pennsylvania from 

 1708 to 1715. 



Possibly about this time he recalled the great 

 facilities for studying and gaining experience in 

 surgical work which existed in London and Edin- 



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