NOTES 327 



Cf. Albert Gallatin. By John Austin Stevens 

 [American Statesmen Series], Boston, 1891, pp. 19, 22. 



" At Boston Gallatin made the acquaintance of a 

 French gentleman, one Savary de Valcoulon, who had 

 crossed the Atlantic to prosecute in person certain 

 claims against the State of Virginia for advances made 

 by his house in Lyons during the war. He accom- 

 panied Gallatin to New York, and together they trav- 

 elled to Philadelphia .... Soon after these plans 

 were completed [purchase of western lands] Savary 

 and Gallatin moved to Richmond, where they made 

 their residence. In February 1784, Gallatin returned 

 to Philadelphia." 



P. 72 Near Petersburg at this time lived Dr. James 

 Greenway, (grandfather of Gen. Winfield Scott), an 

 industrious botanist whose notes were very useful to 

 Castiglioni. The copy of Gronovius's Flora Virginica 

 in the Library of Congress was once Dr. Greenway's 

 and is copiously annotated in his handwriting. 



In this neighborhood there had lived, a good many 

 years earlier, the distinguished botanist John Banister, 

 whose work is incorporated in Ray's Historia Plan- 

 tornm, whom Ray calls ' eruditissimus vir et consum- 

 matissimus botanicus.' 



Cf. Castiglioni, Viaggio negli Stati Uniti. I, 220- 

 221. 



P. 74 The colony had an old inheritance of To- 

 bacco, which the state here and there yet finds difficult 

 Cf. Oldmixon, The British Empire in America. 2nd 

 edition, London, 1741, (1st ed., 1708). Vol. I, p. 448, 

 : The Trade of this Colony, as well as that of Mary- 

 land, consists almost entirely of Tobacco; for tho' the 



