Rufus Jones, Master Quaker

On the Nature of Models: Let us Now Praise Famous Men and Women, from Warren McCulloch to Candace Pert

Warren was a philosopher and scientist. As a freshman at Haverford College he told the Quaker philosopher Rufus Jones that all he wanted to know was: "What is a number that a man may know it; and a man, that he may know a number?" To this the Quaker famously replied: "Friend, thee will be busy as long as thee lives." Warren acknowledged in his last days that the prophecy had been fulfilled, and...

Evans's and Cheevers's Quaker Missionary Travels

In her article "Evans's and Cheevers's Quaker Missionary Travels" Hui-chu Yu investigates Katharine Evans's and Sarah Cheevers's account of their experiences as Quaker missionaries in Malta between 1658-1662. For Evans and Cheevers traveling was a mission ordained by god and thus their journey is less a trip for the gratification of exploration than spiritual and physical trials. With a purpose...

Rufus Cole, 1913

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. Thomas Corbyn, Quaker merchant.

The remains of Thomas Corbyn (1711-91), wholesale and manufacturing chemist and druggist, lie in a copper coffin at Bunhill Fields, London. No inscription marks his burial place, nor has any portrait ofhim been found. Vanities ofsuch a kind would not have been to his taste, since he was not only a Quaker, but one ofthe plainest Friends of his day, not only in dress--he wore clothes of a uniform...

Seroprevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in the Pennsylvania bobcat (Lynx rufus rufus).

From 2000 to 2002 bobcat blood samples were collected, in association with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, during the recently reactivated bobcat hunting and trapping season. Sex, age, and county/township data were recorded for each animal. Blood was tested for antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii using the modified agglutination test. In the 2-yr study, 131 bobcat samples were collected in 14 Pen...