The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . n asa surgeon of skill, and his services were called into requisition by theauthorities durmg the French and Indian war, which swept over theProvince. His treatment of the Indian Tatamy, as well as his reports toGovernor Denny, are matters ot record. He was elected a member ofthe American Philosophical Society, April 21, 1769. This was the firstme
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . n asa surgeon of skill, and his services were called into requisition by theauthorities durmg the French and Indian war, which swept over theProvince. His treatment of the Indian Tatamy, as well as his reports toGovernor Denny, are matters ot record. He was elected a member ofthe American Philosophical Society, April 21, 1769. This was the firstmeeting held by the present Society after the union with the AmericanSociety, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. was stricken with paralysis, August 7, 1786, and died at Bethlehemtwo days later. The tollowing notice appears in connection with upon the Moravian record : He served the congregation andsurrounding neighbourhood ior thirty-six years with great faithfulness,by the Lords help performed many difficult cures, and was held in highregard. (See Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, part 2, pp. 62-64; also Memorials of the Moravian Church, vol. i.) 36 The Pennsylvania-German Seal of the AmericanPhilosophical Society. member of the American Philosophical Society, whoaddressed a Memoir on theDiscovery of America to the•Society in 1786 through itsPresident, Dr. BenjaminFranklin, in which he boldlyset forth the claims of MartinBehaim of Niimberg, as a par-taker in the discovery ofAmerica.^ This paper waspublished in the Transactions of the Society,^ andattracted great attention at home and abroad. It re-sulted in other investigators of greater and lesserdegree taking up the study. Prominent among scholars who have given theirattention to the subject are to be found the names ofBaron Alexander von Humboldt, Doctor F. , City librarian of Niimberg, Doctor SophusRuge, of Dresden, Doctor D. Th. Scliott, of
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