ADAM KUHN 



1741-1817 

 Kuhnia Eupatorioides — LINNAEUS 



Meanwhile, botanists were increasing in 

 America, especially in Pennsylvania, which state 

 gave us the pompous, methodical, learned Adam 

 Kuhn. It was of him that the great Linnaeus sat 

 down on February 24, 1763, to write to Adam 

 Kuhn, senior, living in Philadelphia, in fine 

 Latin commending his pupil, Adam junior: 



" He is unwearied in his studies and daily and 

 faithfully studies materia medica with me. He 

 has learnt the sympathetic history of diseases in 

 an accurate and solid manner. In natural history 

 and botany he has made remarkable success. He 

 has studied anatomy and physiology with other 

 professors.'' 



Kuhn was born at Germantown, near Phila- 

 delphia, November 17, 1741. His grandfather, 

 John Christopher Kuhn, and his father. Dr. 

 Adam Simon Kuhn, came from Heilbronn, 

 Swabia, to Philadelphia in September, 1733. 

 Adam first studied medicine with his father, then 

 sailed for Europe, in 1761, and arrived at Upsala 

 by way of London. 



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