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countries along the sea-coast to Philadelphia. In 1806 he went 

 in a like manner over the Northern States, beginning with the 

 mountains of Pennsylvania and extending to those of New 

 Hampshire (in which tract he traversed the extensive country 

 of the lesser and great lakes) and returned as before by the sea 

 coast. Both these tours he made on foot, travelling over an 

 extent of more than three thousand miles each season, with no 

 other companions than his dog and gun, frequently taking up 

 his lodgings in the midst of wild mountains and impenetrable 

 forests, far remote from the habitations of man. After his re- 

 turn, while making arrangements for the publication of his 

 materials, he was called upon to take the management of the 

 Botanic Garden of New York, and in 1807 took charge of that 

 establishment. In 1810 he took a voyage to the West Indies, 

 visiting the Islands of Barbadoes, Martinique, Dominique, Guad- 

 aloupe and St. Bartholomew's, from which he returned in the 

 autumn of 1811 He next went to London, Eng., where he 

 very soon became acquainted with those who were very much 

 attached to the science of botany, amongst whom were Sir Joseph 

 Banks and A. B. Lambert, Esq., who greatly assisted him in the 

 publication of his work. On its completion he c:ime to Canada, 

 where he died. 



Pursh was interred in the old cemetery in Papineau road. 

 There his remains lay neglected till 1857, when the facts becom- 

 ing known to the late Dr. Barnston and other "-entlemen con 

 nected with the Botanical Society of Montreal, the bones were 

 removed to the Mount Royal Cemetery, and an effort was made 

 to secure means to erect a suitable monument. The untimely 

 death of Dr. Barnston arrested this monument; and with his 

 death the Botanical Society itself became extinct. Attention 

 was again directed to the subject in 1877, principally at the 

 instance of the late Dr. John Bell, and a Committee of the 

 Natural History Society, consisting of the President, Treasurer, 

 and members of the Council, were enabled to carry this tribute 

 to a too lon^z; nesjlected man of science to a successful issue. It 

 should be added that, on the request of the Committee, the 

 Trustees of the Mount Royal Cemetery liberally contributed to 

 the object by the grant of a lot in a retired and beautiful portion 

 of the cemetery, such as a lover of nature like Pursh might have 

 himself selected as his last earthly resting place. 



