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physician, spent a number of years in Charleston. S. C, coniniunicated 

 much new light with respect to the animals generally, and especially 

 the amjMbia of our country. He was for a long time a correspondent 

 of Linne, and was of immense service to the illustrious Swedish natu- 

 ralist in furnishing information respecting the animals of America. Few 

 names occur more frequently, or are mentioned with more honor in the 

 Systeina JYaturae than Dr. Garden's. 



Mr. Glover, a planter of Virginia, communicated to the public many 

 valuable facts respecting American Zoology. Tlie principal i)art of his 

 papers on this subject appeared in the '■'•PhUosopkical Transactions''' 

 about the year 1740. 



Mr. William Bartram of Pennsylvania, an indefatigable and well in- 

 formed student of nature, added considerably to the number of facts be- 

 fore known concerning the animals of the Southern and Western parts 

 of the United States and the adjacent territories. These may be found 

 in his Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and 

 West Florida, &c. from 1773 to 1778. 



Afterwards Dr. Barton, Professor of Natural History in the Universi- 

 ty of Pennsylvania, made very respectable additions to the Zoological 

 science of our country. He wrote Fragments of the Natural llistoiy of 

 Pennsylvania, Essay on the fascinating power ascribed to snakes, &c. 

 and several memoirs on particular subjects in Zoology in the American 

 Philosophical Transactions. 



The names of other American gentlemen of the last century might 

 be mentioned who have given descriptions of particular animals v/hich 

 came under their observation. In such a list Mr. Jefferson, Dr. Mitchell, 

 Kev. 31r. Heckewelder and others, would be entitled to distinction. To 

 these might be added the names of the Rev. Dr's Belknap and Williams, 

 vho in their respective Histories of New Hampshire and Vermont, after 

 the example of Mr. Jefferson, in his "Notes on Virginia," have given 

 Catalogues of the animals of those Slates. 



Under the head of Mammalogy, (wliich includes all those animals 

 which nourish their young with milk,) all investigations connected with 

 the natural history of man would be referred. The history of the 

 American race has been the subject of much speculation, but no books of 

 American authorship, treat the subject more extensively and profoundly 

 than those of Dr. Macculloch of Baltimore, Kev. Mr. Heckewelder, Dr. 

 Godman, and tiie naturalist attached to the two expeditions to the Far 

 West under Major Long. 



The first systematic work on our quadrujjeds is Dr. Harlan\s Ftnaia 

 Jlmerlcana^ or a descri[)tion of the lUammifcrous animal^ iuhabitiii"' 



