NOTES 419 



Smith Barton's Collections for an Essay towards a 

 Materia Medica of the United States. Philadelphia, 

 1798, p. 2. " Mine is not the first attempt of this 



kind Dr. Schoepf of Erlangen in Germany 



has favored us with a specimen of such a work 



The author arranges the articles according to the sex- 

 ual system of Linnaeus. This, though an objection, is 

 not the greatest. He has given us nothing from his 



own experience But as the effort of Schoepf is 



the best of its kind, so we ought to tread lightly on his 

 work. He is at least a man of learning, and learning 

 should always claim indulgence ' &c. Almost simul- 

 taneously with Schoepf's Travels appeared the first of 

 Dr. Morse's numerous American Geographies and 

 Gazetteers. 



P. 397 In the copy of Schoepf's Travels in the 

 Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania there 

 is pencilled a note, " Robert Hare, brewer, Callowhill." 

 And in the Philadelphia directory for 1785, the first 

 directory published there, the entry appears, " Hare 

 & Twelves, porter brewers, Callowhill Street, between 

 Front and Second." 



Therefore Dr. Schoepf's fellow-traveller was the 

 father of the late distinguished man of science, Dr. 

 Robert Hare of Philadelphia. 



