62 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Bloomsbury-street, London, and are offered at little more than half the 
price recently put upon them by Mr. Zeyher. They are numbered, and 
the numbers are understood to correspond with a list published in 
the volume of the “ Linnea” for 1847. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall ; with notices of 
their Botanical Contemporaries; by Writitam Darutneron, M.D., 
LL.D. Philadelphia. 1849. pp. 585. 
We are indebted to our excellent friend Dr. Darlington, of West 
Chester, Pennsylvania, for a copy of this interesting work,—one quite 
congenial to the generous nature of the author, who is already known 
by the affectionate tribute he has paid to the memory of Baldwin, in 
his * Reliquis Baldwiniane ;’ by his * Flora Cestrica, one of the best 
local Floras in the United States; and by his useful work on ‘ Agri- 
cultural Botany.’ 
The Memorials of Bartram consist of letters, principally from his 
early patrons in England, among whom the name of the excellent and 
zealous Collinson stands prominently forward. This correspondence 
had been entrusted to Dr. Darlington by Colonel Carr, who married 
Bartram’s granddaughter. A few of the “rough draughts” of 
Bartram’s letters are given, and it is only to be regretted that the 
entire letters and journals of this remarkable man have not yet been 
discovered, as they would have added largely to the value of the work. 
There is enough, however, to impress us with the striking qualities of 
Bartram’s nature. His zeal in the search of plants, especially of the 
forest-trees and shrubs ; the sagacity with which he discriminated them, 
amid the poverty of his means for self-instruction ; the integrity of his 
dealings ; the happiness he found in his pursuits, and the fervent piety 
consequent on his observation of the works of nature, are conspicuous 
not only in his own letters, but in those of his friends, who abundantly 
testify to the respect which his talents and character had inspired. 
To those who take the same pleasure that we do in familiar corre- 
spondence of this kind, Dr. Darlington’s work will rank with that of 
Sir J. E. Smith, in the correspondence of Linneus and other naturalists, 
