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Florida. William was patronized by Dr. Fothergill, especially for his 
drawings, some of which are still extant, and of great merit, in the 
Banksian Library; and we feel that some fuller memorial of this 
favourite son of John Bartram, and the early friend of Wilson, is due 
to his merits. 
Of Marshall, the cousin of John Bartram, less is known ; and this 
record of him, as one of the early observers of American plants, is the 
more valuable. He was highly respected, and formed a Botanie 
Garden in 1773. In 1780 he published an * Arbustum Americanum,' 
the first publication on the botany of the United States by an 
American. Schreber in 1791 established the genus Marshallia in his 
honour. He died in 1801. Among his correspondence are letters 
from Dr. Fothergill, Dr. Franklin, Sir J oseph Banks, &ec. 
Among the memorials of these early pioneers of American “Botany, 
given in this volume, not the least interesting are the representations 
of the residences of these naturalists (exhibiting a style of building, we 
apprehend, very different from that of the present day in the United 
States), and a woodcut of the silver cup presented to Bartram by Hans 
Sloane, bearing the inscription, ** The gift of Dr. Hans Sloane to his 
friend John Bartram, Anno 1742.” 
Tt is fortunate for the history of American botany that Bartram kept 
copies of so many letters as are here published ; were it not for them 
. the Memorial of John Bartram would rather have been a memorial 
of Peter Collinson. Still, the number here published is small, in pro- 
portion to what he must have written; and Dr. Darlington is naturally 
very anxious to know if such still remain with the representatives of 
the Collinson family. Some particulars relating to Peter Collinson 
are given in our friend Dillwyn's very interesting ‘Hortus Collinso- 
nianus,’ a privately printed brochure; and we know that Mr. Dillwyn 
has since traced the existence of a mass of papers, supposed to contain 
the letters of his friends, to the period when the grandson of Peter 
. Collinson occupied “the Chantry,” near Ipswich, “‘ where was a 
room apparently full of old furniture and papers always kept under 
lock and key by the possessor, who died about ten or twelve years ago." 
Should this meet the eye of any one able to give information on this 
head, the Editor will feel grateful to have it communicated to him. 
