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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
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