B6 THE r,<>TA\I-T> OF I'l I I I.ADKI.I'If I A. 



WILLIAM BARTRAM. 



\Villi;ini Hai-tram. the tit'tli son of the- botanist, John 

 Hal-tram, was born at Kingsessing, IVnna.. February n, 

 173D, inheriting his taste for l)otany from his father. He 

 was his father's companion in several hotanical journey-. 

 affording him mueh assistance. As \\'illiarn was never 

 married, he continued to reside in the old home with his 

 l>rother John, also a botanist, to whom the garden descended 

 by his father's will. 



William traveled extensively in the Southern state-, 

 and an exhaustive account of these journeys appeared in a 

 book entitled : "Travels Through North and South Carolina, 

 Geor.ii-i.-i, Fast and West Florida," 17'.1. * After his return 

 from his tours he devote* 1 himself to science, and in ITS'J 

 was elected professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 which post lie declined on account of failing health. f 



So far as can be ascertained, he was the first botanist 

 who visited the southern portion of the Alleglumies. tnder 

 the auspices of Dr. Fothergill, | to whom his collections 

 were principally sent, William l>artram left Philadelphia 

 in 1773, and after traveling in Florida and the lower part 

 of (.leorgia for three years, he made a hurried visit to the 

 Cherokee country in the spring of 1776. On this trip he 



* IT'.il. W. BAI:TI:AM Travels through .\<>rlh <m<l s<mth < 'nmliiKi. <''> <</<<' 

 J:'nxt inn/ n'rxt l''l<irida, etc., eontainin;/ nil un-mnit < if the soil mnl mil u nil pro- 

 iliiriiniia nt l/i"M r> itinim, rhilaik-lpliia. lU'i'rinti-il nt I.ninlon lor .1. .loluison, 

 17'.' 1. |.|i. \.\iv, .VJd inil. .s tai.. 



t For |iortr:iit of Win. I'.artram, see " 1'oinciTs of Science in Aim-rira." 

 ciliii'il ami iv\i-nl l.y Win. .lay Yoinnan- i AjM'lfioti IX"'.. \<. -1. An oil painting of 

 \\iii. Hart rain reposes at the IVnn>yl\ ania Historical ,-oi'irty. 



I John Kothrr.L,'ill (17TJ-17M)i was a native of Wesleyilale in Yorkshire, an.l a 

 li^tin^nishi'il phy^ic-ian in l.oinlon. where he liveil t'roin 171(1 till his death. In 17ii'J 

 \>i . l-'oiln-i-L'ill plan I cil on hi> cstalc in l-:-.-r.\ a rollci-tioii of tm- and -hrul'-. \\ hicli 

 \\as at that lime con^iilcrnl one of tin 1 most important in Kimlall'l. Sil\a of 

 North Anii-rica. Sargent, VI, p. 10. Atuer. Jour. Sei., XI, II. 



