[PW] John Perkins -- just some scraps

[Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)]

>From <Intercolonial Aspects of American Culture on the Eve of the
Revolution> by Michael Kraus; Columbia University Press, 1928:

p. 145:  <Elsewhere there was a stir among the fraternity. A short time
before, Dr. John Perkins had pleaded for the installation of a professor
of medicine at Harvard, where there was some talk of establishing a
medical school to be connected with the college.>  

p. 149:  <Franklin, who was intensely interested, corresponded with
Bostonians and compared the reactions to smallpox of those inoculated
and those who had not taken the treatment. Douglass was anxious to write
on the subject again; John Perkins said that the proportion of deaths
was much fewer than in 1730.>

p. 162: < Dr. John Perkins of Boston sent a paper On Tornadoes,
Hurricanes and Waterspouts ( 1773), which won him election [to the
American Philosophical Society] the next year.>

>From <Seeds of Liberty: The Genesis of the American Mind> by Max
Savelle; A.A. Knopf, 1948:

pp. 143-144:  <William Douglass, severe critic of others that he was,
especially in his economics and his politics, yet was anxious to
exchange scientific criticism with other scientists, and, more important
still, he was capable of changing his mind. Franklin, in a letter for
Douglass, addressed to John Perkins, expressed the scientist's attitude
in 1752: 

I am indebted for your preceding letter, but business sometimes obliges
me to postpone philosophical amusements. Whatever I have wrote of that
kind are really, as they are entitled, but Conjectures and Suppositions;
which ought always to give place, when careful observation militates
against them. I own I have too strong a penchant to the building of
hypotheses; they indulge my natural indolence. I wish I had more of your
patience and accuracy in making observations, on which alone true
philosophy can be founded. And, I assure you, nothing can be more
obliging to me, than your kind communication of those you make, however
they may disagree with my preconceived notions.> 

-- Tom 

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