4i8 Me7)iorial of George Bnnvn Goode. 



at lyaiicaster, was an eminent botanist, educated in Germany, though a 

 native of Pennsylvania. His Flora of Lancaster was a pioneer work. 

 In 1813 he published a full catalogue of the plants of North America, in 

 which about 2,800 species were mentioned. He supplied Hedwig with 

 many of the rare American mosses, which were published either in the 

 Stirpes Cryptogamicse of that author or in the Species Muscorum. To 

 Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Dawson Turner he likewise sent man}' plants. 

 He made extensive preparations, writing a general flora of North America, 

 but death interfered with his project. The American Philosophical 

 Society preserves his herbarium, and the moss Fjineria inuhlenbergii, 

 the violet Viola muhlenbergii, and the grass Muhlenbergia are among 

 the memorials to his name.' 



To Pennsylvania, but not to Philadelphia, came in 1794 Joseph Priest- 

 ley [i 733-1804], the philosopher, theologian, and chemist. Although 

 his name is more famous in the history of chemistry than that of any liv- 

 ing contemporary, American or European, his work was nearly finished 

 before he left England. He never entered into the scientific life of the 

 country which he sought as an exile, and of which he never became a 

 citizen, and he is not properly to be considered an element in the history 

 of American science. 



His coming, however, was an event of considerable political impor- 

 tance, and \yilliam Cobbett's Observations on the Emigration of Doctor 

 Joseph Priestley, by Peter Porcupine, was followed by several other pam- 

 phlets equallj' vigorous in expression. McMaster is evidentlj' unjust to 

 some of the public men who welcomed Priestley to America, though no 

 one will den}- that there were unprincipled demagogues in America in 

 the year of grace 1794. Jefferson was undoubtedly sincere when he 

 wrote to him the words quoted elsewhere in this address. 



Another eminent exile welcomed by Jefferson, and the writer, at the 

 President's request, of a work on national education in the United States, 

 was M. Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours [b. in Paris, 1739; d. 1817]. 

 He was a member of the Institute of France, a statesman, diplonmtist, 

 and political economist, and author of many important works. He lived 

 in the United States at various times from 1799 till 18 17, when he died 

 near Wilmington, Delaware. Eike Priestley, he was a member of the 

 American Philosophical Society, and affiliated with its leading members. 



The gunpowder works near Wilmington, Delaware, founded b}' his 

 son in 1798, are still of great importance, and the .statue of one of his 

 grandsons, an Admiral in the United States Navy, adorns one of the 

 principal squares in the national capital. 



Among other notable names on the roll of the society in the last cen- 

 tury were those of General Anthony Wayne and Thomas Payne. His 

 Excellencj' General Washington was also an active member, and seems 



'William J. Hooker, On the Botany of America, Edinburgh Journal of Science, 



II, p. 108. 



