388 Memorial of George Broivn Goode. 



on pleuris}', in which he treats of the Seneca as an efficient remedy in 

 the cure of this disease. ' He also wrote other botanical treatises.^ Doctor 

 George Greham, of Dumfries, Virginia, was a man of similar tastes, and 

 it is said by Mr. Jefferson that we are indebted to him for the introduc- 

 tion to America of the tomato. 



David Krieg, F. R. S., a German botanist, collected insects for Petiver 

 in Maryland, and gathered also hundreds of species of plants. He seems 

 to have returned to England very early in the century, for his name 

 appears in the Philosophical Transactions in 1701. 



Colonel William Byrd, of Westover, Virginia [b. 1764, d. 1793], was 

 a man of European education, the owner of a magnificent library, in 

 which Stith wrote his history of Virginia, founder of the city of Rich- 

 mond, colonial agent in Eondon, and president of the King's council. 

 He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, to which he communicated a 

 paper An Account of a Negro Boy that is dappeld in several Places of 

 his Body with White spots, ^ and was a correspondent of Collinson, 

 Bartram, and other naturalists. His History of the Dividing Line, and 

 his Journey to the Eand of Eden, in 1733, contain many interesting 

 observations upon Indians and general natural history. He it was who, 

 in 1694, carried to England a female opossum, which furnished the mate- 

 rials for the first dissertation upon the anatomy of the marsupiates.'* 



One of the most eminent of our colonial naturalists was, Doctor Alex- 

 ander Garden, born in Scotland about 1728 [d. 1791]. He emigrated to 

 America about 1750, and practiced medicine in Charleston, South Caro- 

 lina, until after the close of the Revolutionary war, when he returned to 

 England and became very prominent in scientific and literary circles, and 

 vice-president of the Royal Society in 1783. He was an excellent 

 botanist, but did his best work upon fishes and reptiles. He sent large 

 collections of fishes to Linnaeus, which were so well prepared that when 

 I examined the fishes in the Linnsean collection in London, in 1883, I 

 found nearly every specimen referred to by him in his letters in excellent 

 condition, though few collected by others were identifiable. Garden was 

 the discoverer of Amphiuma means, and was instrumental in first send- 

 ing the electrical eel to Europe. His letters to Linnaeus and to Ellis are 

 voluminous and abound in valuable information. In 1764 he published 

 a description of Spigelia marila7idica, with an account of its medicinal 

 properties. 



James Logan [b. 1664, d. 1751], a native of Ireland and member of 



' James Thacher, Medical Biography, I, p. 73. 



= Mitchell, writing to Ivinnaeus, in 1748, remarks : " I can now only send you . . . 

 some dissertations of Mr. Tennent upon the Polygala, two of which only have come 

 out among his latest publications. His former ones, of inferior merit, are not now 

 to be had. ' ' 



3 Philosophical Transactions, XIX, 1697, p. 781. 



4 Edward Tyson, Carigueya, seu Marsupialie Americanum, or the Anatomy of an 

 Opossum, etc. Philosophical Transactions, XX, 1698, p. 105. 



