Tag Archives: botany

James King Davidson’s Journal

James King Davidson was a senior at Dickinson College in 1829. Born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1810, he went on to receive his M.D. from the Jefferson Medical College. A notebook of his, now part of Dickinson College’s Special … Continue reading

Posted in More Topics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Mimosa

Percy Shelley’s poem “The Sensitive Plant” is based on a natural history specimen, a member of the mimosa family.  In Shelley’s poem the plant is personified in a powerfully anthropomorphic way: A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the … Continue reading

Posted in More Topics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment