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rican  Philosophical  Society,  Vice  President  of  the  College  of  P/hysicians, 
and  President  of  the  Managers  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum  of  this  city  ; 
from  some  of  these  bodies  and  from  the  Faculty  of  Jefferson  College,  it 
may  be  supposed,  memoirs  will  emanate,  which  will  more  fully  perpetuate 
his  character  and  services  to  the  cause  of  science  and  humanity.  We 
have  deemed  it  fitting  that  our  records  should  show  our  appreciation  of 
one,  whose  connection  with  our  College  has  been  a  source  of  unalloyed 
satisfaction,  and  whose  example  and  precept  have  been  productive  of 
such  important  effects  upon  our  profession.  Dr.  Bache  died  on  the  19th 
of  March,  1864. 
Dr.  Franklin  Scammon  was  born  in  Whitefield,  Lincoln  County,  Maine, 
October  23d,  1810.  We  first  know  of  him  as  an  apothecary  and  chemist, 
in  Hallowell,  Maine,  where  he  practiced  our  art,  devoting  at  the  same 
time  much  attention  to  the  Natural  Sciences.  He  subsequently  studied 
medicine,  graduated  in  Philadelphia,  and  returned  to  Hallowell  to  prac- 
tice. Following  the  tide  of  emigration,  he  removed  to  Chicago  about 
the  year  1850.  He  was  engaged  in  varied  business  pursuits,  at  one 
time  manufacturing  linseed  oil.  His  taste  for  the  Natural  Sciences  was  a 
controlling  element  in  his  character,  and  led  him  to  devote  the  last  few 
years  almost  to  Botany  and  kindred  pursuits.  He  was  el  ed  President 
of  the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy  on  the  organization  of  that  Institu- 
tion, and  was  recently  chosen  Professor  of  Botany  in  the  University  of 
Chicago  ;  his  botanical  collection  was  extensive  and  valuable,  and  he  is 
said  to  have  been  an  able  professor.  He  was  an  associate  member  of  this 
College.  His  declining  health,  for  several  years  past,  had  cast  a  shadow 
over  his  pursuits,  and  on  the  10th  of  February,  1864,  he  passed  from 
earth. 
Dr.  Robert  P.  Thomas  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  the  29th  of  May, 
1821.  His  father,  Daniel  J.  Thomas,  and  his  mother,  who  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Pennel,  of  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania,  were  descended 
from  early  settlers  of  this  Commonwealth,  and  were  members  of  the  So- 
ciety of  Friends  ;  both  parents  survive  him. 
The  boyhood  of  Dr.  Thomas  was  chiefly  spent  in  his  native  city,  where, 
for  a  time,  he  was  a  pupil  in  the  Friends'  Academy,  Fourth  below  Chest- 
nut Street,  in  which,  since  its  establishment  in  1689,  many  of  the  promi- 
nent citizens  of  Philadelphia  have  been  educated.  He  was  afterwards 
sent  to  Wcsttown  Boarding  School  in  Chester  County,  another  old  and 
famous  institution  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  Here  he  gained  a  good  Eng- 
lish education,  with  the  rudiments  of  classical  learning,  and  doubtless 
acquired  that  taste  for  natural  science  which  was  conspicuous  in  his  later 
career. 
When  about  sixteen  years  of  age,  he  entered  the  counting  house  of 
