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and also Governor of Connecticut in 1662. is said to have been 

 " famous for his philosophical knowledge." He was a founder 

 of the Royal Society, being at the time of its origin in England 

 as agent of the colony. And the second Governor's grandson, 

 John Winthrop, F. R. S., [b. 1681, d. 1747), who passed the 

 latter part of his life in England, was declared to have increased 

 the Royal Society's repository " with more than six hundred 

 curious specimens, chiefly in the mineral kingdom," and since 

 the founder of the museum of the Royal Society, " the benefac- 

 tor who has given the most numerous collections."* 



The Rev. John Clayton, rector of Crofton, at Wakefield, in 

 Yorkshire, made a journey to Virginia in 16S5, and in 16S8 com- 

 municated to the Royal Society •• An account of several observ- 

 ables in Virginia and in his voyage thither. "f Clayton seems to 

 have been a man of scientific culture, and to have been the author, 

 in company with Dr. Moulin, of a treatise upon Comparative 

 Anatomy. He was of the same school with Harriott and Wood, 

 though more philosophical. His essay was, however, the most 

 important which had yet been published upon the natural history 

 of the South, and his annotated catalogue of mammals, birds and 

 reptiles is creditably full. 



Thomas Glover also published about this time " An Account of 

 Virginia,"! in which he discussed the natural history of the colony 

 after the manner of Wood and Morton. The Rev. Hugh Jones 

 also published a similar but shorter paper upon " Several Ob- 

 servables in Maryland," § in which, however, no new facts are 

 mentioned. He collected insects and plants for Petiver. 



Benjamin Bullivant, of Boston, was another of the men who, 

 to use the language of the day, was " curious" in matters of nat- 



* Tuckerman, op. cit., pp. 123-4. See also The Winthrop Papers. 

 <Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Fifth Series, vol. viii. 



t Phil. Trans, xvii, pp. 781-795, 978-999; xviii. pp. 121-135, and in Mis- 

 cellanea Cufiosa, vol. iii; also reprinted in Force's Historical Tracts, 

 vol. iii. 



J Phil. Trans., ix, p. 633. 



§ Phil. Trans., xxi, p. 436. 



