432 Me7norial of George Brown Goode. 



dix to his Travels, published in 1807, on which Rafinesque founded his 

 Florula I,udoviciana (New York, 18 17). 



Thaddeus Hgenke [b. 1761, d. in Cochabaniba, Bolivia, 18 17] visited 

 western North America with the Spaniards late in the last century, and 

 made large collections of plants, which were sent to the National Museum 

 of Bohemia, at Prague, and in part described in Presl's Reliquiae Haen- 

 kianae, 72 plates. 



Archibald Menzies [b. 1754, d. 1842], an English naval surgeon, also 

 collected on our Pacific Coast, under Vancouver, in 1780-1795, and his 

 plants fovuid their way to Edinburgh and Kew. 



Captain Wangenheim, Surgeon Schoepf, of the Hessian contingent of 

 the British arni}^, Olaf Swartz, a Swedish botanical explorer, and others, 

 also gathered plants in these early days, and in some instances published 

 in Europe their botanical observations. 



Other collectors of this same class were E. A. G. Bosc [1759-1828], 

 who made botanical researches in the Carolinas during the last two years 

 of the century, and returned to France in 1800 with a herbarium of 

 1,600 species. He also collected fishes, and his name is perpetuated in 

 connection with at least two well known American fauna. Another was 

 M. Milbert, who collected for Cuvier in New York, Canada, the Great 

 Eake region, and the Mississippi Valley from 18 17 to 1823. 



The Baron Palisot de Beauvois [b. 1755, d. 1820] came from Santo 

 Domingo to America in 1791. He traveled extensively, and being a 

 zoologist as well as a botanist, made observations upon our native animals, 

 particularly the reptiles. 



It is to him that we owe the most carefully recorded of existing 

 observations of young rattlesnakes crawling down their parent snakes' 

 throats for protection from enemies. 



Most of these men did not contribute largely to the advancement of 

 American scientific iUvStitutes or affiliate with the naturalists of the day. 



Of quite another type was the Count Euigi Castiglioni, who traveled, 

 soon after the Revolution, throughout the Eastern States and published 

 in 1790 two volumes of his travels." 



The Count Volney [b. at Craon February 3, 1757, d. in Paris April 25, 

 1820], traveler, statesman, and historian, traveled in this countr}^ from 

 1795 to 1798, and in 1803, while a senator of the French Republic, pub- 

 lished his famous work upon the United States, containing his observa- 

 tions upon its soil and its climate, and upon the Indians, together with 

 the first doctrines of the language of the Miamis,"" and also giving a 

 description of the physical and botanical features of the country. Volney 



^ Viaggio negli Stati Uniti del 1' America Settentrionale. 



^Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Ameriqiie, suivi d'eclaircissements 

 sur la Florida, sur la colonic franjaise a Scioto sur quelques colonies canadiennes, 

 et sur les sauvages. Paris, 1803. Octavo, 2 vols. 2d edition. Paris. Octavo, i 

 vol., pp. 494. Map. 



