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l>ly the first professor of botany in America, appointed in 

 1703 to the chair of botany in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. He had the advantage of studying under the illus- 

 trious Swede, ;ind was said to have been a favorite pupil 

 (Linnajo ex diseipulis acceptissimns). John Bart ram 

 next becomes pre-eminent as a botanist. In the latter end 

 of the year 17.s.">, Humphrey Marshall published his Arbus- 

 tum Americanum,* a description of the trees and shrubs 

 native of the United States. It is the first strictly Ameri- 

 can botanical work. In 1791 William Bartram's Travels f 

 appeared, and in 1801 Andre Michaux's I " Oaks of North 

 America." Two years later, in 1803, the first elementary 

 work on botany by Prof. B. S. Barton, was published in 

 Philadelphia. 



F. Andre Michaux, || in 1810, issued his splendid history 

 of the Forest Trees of North America (Histoire des Arbres 

 Forestiers de 1'Amerique Septentrionale) with elegantly 

 colored plates. An excellent catalogue of the native and 

 naturalized plants of North America was published by Dr. 

 Henry Muhlenberg at Lancaster, in 1813.^[ Later, Frederick 



*17S5. HUMPHREY MARSHALL Arhustum Americanum, the American grove 

 or an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shurbs, natives of the American 

 United Htates. Philadelphia. 



1 1791. WILLIAM BARTKAJI Travels through yorth and South Carolina, Georgia, 

 East and West Florida, etc., containing an account of the soil and natural proil/n-- 

 tions of those regions. Philadelphia. 



J 1801. ANDRE MICHAUX Historic des chfnes de 1'Amerique, ou descriptions ct 

 figures detoutesles espi-cesetvarittesdechi-nesde 1'Amerique septrionale. Paris (folio). 



'',, 1*08. B. S. BARTON Elements of Botany ; or outlines of the natural history 

 of vegetables. Illustrated by forty plates. Philadelphia. 



j| 1810. FRANCOIS ANDRE MICHAUX Histui re des arbres forestiers de I'Ameriq tie 

 Septentrionale, consulfries principalement sous les rapports de leur emploi dans les 

 arts et de leur introduction dans le commerce, ainsi que d'apres les avantages, qu'ils 

 peKvent orr'rir aux gouvcrnenients en Europe, ct aux personnes, qui veulent former 

 de grandcs pl<i nintnm*. Paris. 



111813. MI/HLENBKKG C'dtttlof/im Plantariini Aineriar Septentrionalis hue 

 it.ique Coffiiitaruin, Indifjenaru-in et Cicurum ; or, a Catalogue of the Hitherto 

 Known Native and Naturalized Plants of North America. Arrangx'd according to 

 the Sexual System of Linmeus. Lancaster, IS]:;. A\'m. Ilamilton. m/tavo. pp. iv., 111'. 



