JOHN SYNG DORSEY (1783-1818) succeeded Dr. Wistar as professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. He published an edition of Cooper's "Surgery," and "Elements of Surgery," the latter of which was adopted as the text-book in Edinburgh.
ROYALL TYLER was born in Boston, near Faneuil Hall, July 18, 1757. He studied law under John Adams, was made a judge of the Supreme Court in 1794, and, in 1800, became chief justice. He was one of the closest friends of Joseph Dennie, and when the latter became editor of the _Farmer's Weekly Museum_ he wrote for him a medley of verse and social and political skits under the general title "From the Shop of Messrs. Colon and Spondee."
These papers he continued to write for the _Port Folio_. They "are divided between Federal politics, attacks on French democracy, the Della Cruscan literature, and the fashionable frivolities of the day." He also wrote for the _Port Folio_, in 1801, a series of similarly varied articles, richly reminiscent, entitled "An Author's Evenings."
ROBERT HARE (1781-1858), father of Judge J. I. C. Hare, who was professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in William and Mary College, and, later, professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, published a number of moral essays in the _Port Folio_ under the pen-name of "Eldred Grayson."
DR. NATHANIEL CHAPMAN (1783-1850) used the pen-name of "Falkland."
ALEXANDER GRAYDON (1752-1818), a man of elegant manners and author of a useful and entertaining volume of "Memoirs of a Life chiefly passed in Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years," published, in the _Port Folio_, in 1813-14, a series of chatty paragraphs styled "Notes of a Desultory Reader." He lived in the "Slate-Roof House," at Second Street and Norris' Alley, where he had an opportunity of meeting men of rank and fame.
JOSIAH QUINCY (1772-1864), whose opinion of the _Port Folio_ has been already quoted, contributed to it a series of articles, beginning January 28, 1804, in the style of Swift, and signed "Climenole".[16]
[16] The name of the flappers, employed by the inhabitants of Laputa to arouse them from their scientific reveries.
JOHN LEEDS BOZMAN (1757-1823) studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and read law in the Middle Temple, London. He contributed both prose and verse to the _Port Folio_.