Biographical sketch of the late Robert Graham ... Being the annual address delivered before the Harveian Society of Edinburgh, on 11th April 1846. (Sixty-fourth anniversary) / [Charles Ransford].

  • Ransford, Charles, 1808?-1886.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Biographical sketch of the late Robert Graham ... Being the annual address delivered before the Harveian Society of Edinburgh, on 11th April 1846. (Sixty-fourth anniversary) / [Charles Ransford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    siderable collection of the plants of that country ; and, according to his instructions, Dr GRAHAM had each parcel successively sent to him, that he might select specimens for his Herbarium. I had sent him a portion of this collection, from which he had selected specimens and returned the dupli- cates tome. I thought no more of the matter, until one day I received back the specimens which he had picked out, with a note in the following terms :—‘ My dear Maciacan, I return you the plants which I had selected from your brother’s Canadian collection. I feel too ill now to enter- tain a hope that they ever can be incorporated with my Herbarium; and as my collection will, some time or other, be brought to the hammer, I will not retain them, as [ cannot think of making merchandize of PHILip’s specimens.— Y ours truly, RoBpertT GRAHAM.’ ” Our friend, when in health, was strict and con- scientious in the discharge of his religious duties, as well in his family as in his attendance upon public worship, to which he often, on the Sabbath, invited his clerks to accompany him after their necessary duties at the Infirmary were completed. Whilst firmly attached to the Episcopal Church,
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