An address upon the late Joseph Leidy ... : his university career / By William Hunt. Delivered November 17th, 1891, before the alumni and students of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. [In memoriam. Personal history. By William Humt. Read at the Academy of Natural Sciences, May 12, 1891].

  • Hunt, William, 1825-1896.
Date:
1892
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    that bore upon the theory of evolution interested Dr. Lcidy extremely. This walking-stick [show- ing stick] greatly awakened his interest. It M^as brought from abroad by a friend of mine and given to me on the condition that it must be first shown to Dr. Leidy, and if he could not tell what it was I would be told. I saw that it was herba- ceous and said so. Dr. Leidy was puzzled for once, and got no further in a diagnosis, where- upon I wrote to my friend, and he answered, telling what the cane is. It is a strip or shoot of the wild cabbage. The cabbages (genus Brassica) are originally sea plants. Among other places near the sea this wild form grows upon the Chan- nel Islands, and sometimes at certain stages it sends up these shoots. Those fit for walking- sticks are selected by the natives and sold as curiosities. So I learnedly write to Dr. Leidy an extract from Knight's Eucyclopsedia (the writer must have been a good Darwinian) : This glau- cous plant has a somewhat woody stem, having but slender likeness to its cultivated progeny; and it is difficult to conceive by what original discoverer the species was brought under the influence of domestication so as to have been prepared for the numerous changes and improve-