86 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 
father in a journey into East Florida, to explore the natural 
productions of that country ; after which he settled on the river 
St. John’s, in that region, and finally returned, about the year 
1771, to his father’s residence. In 1773, at the request of Dr. 
Rothe gill of London, he embarked for Charleston, to examine 
the natural productions of the Floridas and the western parts of 
Carolina and Georgia, chiefly in the vegetable kingdom. In this 
employment he was engaged nearly five years, and made nume- 
rous contributions to the natural history of the country through 
which he travelled. His collections and drawings were forwarded 
to Dr. Fothergill; and about the year 1790 Bartram published 
an account of his travels and discoveries in one volume 8yo, with 
an account of the manners and customs of the Creeks, Chero- 
kees, and Choctaws. This work soon acquired extensive popu- 
larity, and is still frequently consulted. After his return from, 
his travels, he devoted himself to science, and, in 1782, was 
elected professor of botany in the university of Pennsylvania, 
which post he declined in consequence of the state of his health. 
In 1786 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical 
Society, and was a member of several other learned societies in 
Europe and America. We are indebted to him for the know- 
ledge of many curious and beautiful plants peculiar to North 
America, and for the most complete and correct table of Ame- 
rican or nithology, before the work of Wilson, who was assisted 
by him in the commencement of his American Ornithology. He 
wrote an article on the natural history of a plant a few minutes 
before his death, which happened suddenly, by the rupture of a 
blood-vessel in the lungs, July 22. 1823, in the 85th year of his 
age. (Jbid.) 
"In Scotland, as we have seen (p. 48.), very little was done in 
the way of introducing foreign trees and shrubs, during the 
seventeenth century ; though the rudiments of this description 
of improvement were laid “about the end of it, by the establish- 
ment of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. In Nicolson’s Scottish 
Historical Library, published in 1702, this garden is stated to 
have been brought to the highest degree of perfection by its 
curator, Mr. James Sutherland, ‘“‘ whose extraordinary skill and 
industry” are said to have greatly advanced this department of 
natural history in Scotland. In Sibbald’s Scotza Iilustrata, 
published in 1684, the Edinburgh Botanic Garden is said to 
contain an arboretum, in which was “ every kind of tree and 
shrub, as well barren as fruit-bearing, the whole disposed in 
fair order” (p. 66.); and in Sibbald’s Memoria Balfouriana, 
published in 1699, this garden is said to be “ the greatest orna- 
ment of the city of Edinburgh.” (p.73.) The plants of this 
garden have been twice removed to other situations (first in 
1767, and again in 1822), and we believe there is now neither a 
