96 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



for fifty-one years minister of Ipswich Hamlet, Maso., [b. 1743, 

 d. 1823], who in 1785 published " An Account of some of the 

 Vegetable Productions naturally growing in this part of America, 

 botanically arranged,"* in which he described about 370 species. 

 Cutler was a correspondent of Muhlenberg in Pennsylvania, 

 Swartz and Payshull in Sweden, and Withering and Stokes in 

 England. He left unpublished manuscripts of great value. He 

 was one of the founders of the settlement in Ohio, and at one 

 time a member of Congress. After Cutler, says Tuckerman, there 

 appeared in the Northeastern States nothing of importance until 

 the new school of New England Botanists, a school characterized 

 by the names of an Oakes, a Boott, and an Emerson, was founded 

 in 1814, by the publicatioa of Bigelow's "Florula Bostoniensis." 



Thomas Walter [b. in Hampshire, 1740] published in London, 

 in 1787, his '" Flora Caroliniana," a scholarly work describing 

 the plants of a region situate upon the Santee river. f 



Dr. Hugh Williamson, of North Carolina, [b. 1735, d. 1819], 

 was a prominent member of the American Philosophical Society. 

 He was concerned in some of the earliest astronomical and 

 mathematical work in America ; published papers upon comets 

 and climatology, which were favorably received, and secured his 

 election to many foreign societies, and in 1775 printed in the 

 Philosophical Transactions his " Experiments and Observations 

 on the Gymnotus Electricus or Electric Eel." 



Dr. Caspar Wistar [b. 1761, d. 1818] was one of the early 

 professors of chemistry [1789] and anatomy [1793] in the Col 

 lege of Philadelphia. He was the discoverer of some impor- 



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tant points in the structure of the ethmoid bone, a man of emi 

 nence as a teacher, and versed in all the sciences of his day. 



Dr. James Woodhouse, of Philadelphia, [b. 1770, d. 1809], 

 made investigations in chemistry, mineralogy, and vegetable 

 physiology which were considered of importance. 



*Mem. Amer. Acad. Sci., 1785. 



f See Brendel, American Naturalist, Dec., 1879, p. 759. 



