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SHORT, Charles Wilkins, botanist, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, 6 October, 1794; died in Louisville, Kentucky, 7 March, 1863. He was graduated at Transylvania university in 1810, and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1815, and in 1825 was called to the chair of materia medica and medical botany in Transylvania university. In 1838 he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was associated with Dr. Charles Caldwell, Dr. Lunsford P. Yandell, Dr. John Esten Cooke, and Dr. Daniel Drake in founding the medical department of the University of Louisville, and continued to hold a chair in that institution until 1849, when he retired. He then devoted himself to the collection of plants and flowers, and, with Dr. Robert Peter, and Henry A. Griswold, prepared "Plants of Kentucky." Dr. Short was one of the editors of the "Transylvania Journal of Medicine " in 1828-'39, and the author of various botanical notices. At his death his vast herbarium, the result of his life-long collections and exchanges, was bequeathed to the Smithsonian institution. It is now in the possession of the Academy of natural sciences in Philadelphia.
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