. History and genealogy of the Harlan family : and particularly of the descendants of George and Michael Harlan, who settled in Chester County, Pa., 1687. sor of philology, Cornell University,N. Y.) ; a son of John S. Hart (professor of rhetoric. PrincetonCollege) and Amelia Morefield, the latter b. at Charleston, S. , 1899, Ithaca, N. Y. 9993. William, b. at Cincinnati, Ohio, 5, 15, 1857; d. at Nairobi, East Africa, 5, 23, 1901 ; unm. Wiiliain Doherty was a delicate child and therefore not sent toschool until he was eleven years old. Without any special encourage-ment he d
. History and genealogy of the Harlan family : and particularly of the descendants of George and Michael Harlan, who settled in Chester County, Pa., 1687. sor of philology, Cornell University,N. Y.) ; a son of John S. Hart (professor of rhetoric. PrincetonCollege) and Amelia Morefield, the latter b. at Charleston, S. , 1899, Ithaca, N. Y. 9993. William, b. at Cincinnati, Ohio, 5, 15, 1857; d. at Nairobi, East Africa, 5, 23, 1901 ; unm. Wiiliain Doherty was a delicate child and therefore not sent toschool until he was eleven years old. Without any special encourage-ment he developed early in his childhood a keen interest in all livingthings. In 1878 he went abroad as an attache of the Inited StatesAgricultural Department at the Paris Exposition. From that yearuntil 1S80 he travelled extensively and wrote letters for the LondonLiuics m\i\ !\cii York Jribunc, and then gave up journalism for theserious work of his life—science. William Doherty was a most versatile man, with extraordinarynatural gifts. In his profession of zoology he was an the field of oriental moths and Ijutterflies he was undoubtedly the. \. VPI.!. I5lli. 1^57. lHol 5lh Mu. -5lli, lytll. MXTIf C UN [-RAT! OX. 889 Icadini;- discoverer in the world. His exjiloratioiis ranged fromPersia and Southern Tihet to tlie nei,L;hl)orliood of < Iiiinea. his zooloLiioal knowled.^e he was most wonderfullyac(|uainted with the jjcojile of the Mast, from Asi;i Minor to theSumlia Island, :md with their history, ^e, reliijion, mannersand customs. In every way he was a thoroughly eilucated man,knowing several European languages and English, German andFrench to an astonishing degree. A (German scientist, llarterl, now curator of Piaron Rothschilds museum atTring, luigland, read a paper hefore the Novitates of London (of which William Doherly was a member),in which he said: The importance of Dohertys work f
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