. Annals of medical history. ine arm, unconquerd steam, afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying chariot through the fields of air. Two of Dr. Darwins sons, Charles andRobert, became physicians. The first diedwhen but twenty years old, from a woundreceived while dissecting; Robert (1766-1840) became a successful practitioner, butdid not manifest any poetic or scientificbent. Erasmus, the second son, became alawyer. He committed suicide. A son (Fran-cis) by his second marriage, also became aphysician, and died in 1859. Robert Darwin became
. Annals of medical history. ine arm, unconquerd steam, afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying chariot through the fields of air. Two of Dr. Darwins sons, Charles andRobert, became physicians. The first diedwhen but twenty years old, from a woundreceived while dissecting; Robert (1766-1840) became a successful practitioner, butdid not manifest any poetic or scientificbent. Erasmus, the second son, became alawyer. He committed suicide. A son (Fran-cis) by his second marriage, also became aphysician, and died in 1859. Robert Darwin became the father ofCharles, the great naturalist, and RobertDarwins eldest daughter by his secondmarriage, became the mother of FrancisGalton, the author of HereditaryGenius. Of Charles Darwins five sons four at-tained prominence: George as an astron-omer, Francis as a botanist, Leonard in theRoyal Engineers, and Horace as a civilengineer—surelj a record of which the oldphysician-poet of Lichfield is proud, if itis known to IHi: JOHN KFARSLb:YS* By W 11, AM S. MIDDI MADISON, WIS. AS the storm center of the Ameri-can revolutionary movement,Philadelphia presented certainunusual political aspects. Herinstitutions were fundamentally concilia-tory by reason of their Quaker origin. TheEnglish Episcopalian element of her popuhi-tion was in a measure loyal to the Crown,as was manifest by the words and deeds ofsome of the most prominent citizens ofPhiladelphia. Yet a majority of her peoplesupported the cause of liberty in theColonics and outweighed the pacifism of theQuakers and Toryism of the adherents ofthe Motherland. In Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Mitchell has clearly depicted thespirit of those turbulent times in Phila-delphia. Herein he recounts an interestingconversation between the vivacious DartheaPeniston of royalistic bent and the veryhuman Quaker, Hugh Wynne, who like theBiblical Peter resented personal insult withphysical force: Since in September, our friend
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