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Lapidse, sends a transcript of the passage, in Latin, in which he 

 is to give Bartram credit for his fossil finds. 



Among the European scientists whom Collinson made ac- 

 quainted with Bartram's work was Sir Hans Sloane, physician 

 and naturalist, who succeeded Newton as President of the Royal 

 Society. At his request Bartram sends him, in 1741, some "petri- 

 fied representations of sea-shells." The next year Sloane sends to 

 Bartram a silver cup inscribed : 



" The gift of S' Hans Sloane, Bart. 



To his Fr" John Bartram. 



Anno 1742." 



A figure of this cup is given by Darlington. Sloane also sent 

 Bartram his Natural History of Jamaica, in two ponderous folio 

 volumes. 



About this time a correspondence began between Bartram and 

 Dr. John Fothergill, a wealthy physician and naturalist, who, like 

 Sloane, had first received some of Bartram's specimens from Col- 

 linson. Dr. Fothergill wishes to know what mineral springs there 

 are in America, and Bartram sends him what information he has 

 and can get from others. 



Bartram also exchanged letters with Philip Miller, author of 

 the Gardener's Dictionary, with George Edwards, who in 17GC 

 sends his book, containing descriptions of birds that the Penn- 

 sylvanian had sent him, with Prof. John Hope, of Edinburgh, 

 and with the ablest observers of nature in the colonies, among 

 whom were Dr. John Mitchell, Rev. Jared Eliot, John Clayton^ 

 Cadwallader Golden, and Dr. Alexander Garden. 



In 1744 he writes, "Dr. Gronovius hath sent me his Index 

 Lapidae, and Linnseus the second edition of his Characteres 

 Plantarum, with a very loving letter desiring my correspondence, 

 and to furnish him with some natural curiosities of our country." 

 The same year he sends to England his Journal of the Five Na- 

 tions and the Lake Ontario, describing a journey he had made 

 the preceding fall. It contained an account of the " soil, produc- 

 tions, mountains, and lakes " of those parts of Pennsylvania and 

 New York through which the route lay ; and gave the proceed- 

 ings of a great assembly of Indian chiefs held to treat with the 

 agent of the Province of Pennsylvania, whom Bartram accom- 

 panied. This journal was afterward published in London. 



The visit of Peter Kalm to America took place in 1748 to 1751. 

 He traveled through Canada, New York, Pennsylvania, and ad- 

 joining provinces ; made the acquaintance of the Gray's Ferry 

 botanist, and obtained much assistance from him. It has been 

 alleged that Kalm took to himself the credit of some discoveries 

 which rightfully belonged to Bartram. This would not be sus- 

 pected from reading Kalm's Travels, in which he gives Bartram 



