of Mr. John Clayton. 145 



by the Gronovius to whom Clayton sent the specimens 

 of Virginia plants, but by the professor's son, Laur. 

 Theod. Gronovius. 



It is my intention to give a more ample and finished 

 account of the life and writings of Clayton, in another 

 work, exclusively consecrated to the memory of a 

 number of illustrious men, botanists, natural- 

 ists, PHYSICIANS, and philosophers, who were 

 either born, or who have flourished, in North- Ame- 

 rica. In the mean while, I thus publicly return my 

 thanks to the two gentlemen who have had the good- 

 ness to collect for me those important documents, to 

 which I have referred, in the preceding impeirfect 

 sketches of the life of one of the Fathers of Bota- 

 nical Science, in America. 



Editor. 



II. Some Account of the late Professor Vahl, of Co- 

 penhagen. By the Editor. 



" PROFESSOR VAHL died, at Copenhagen, 

 on the 24th of December, last, at the age of about 

 fifty-two. His worth and his merits have now, for the 

 first time, come into full and open view. While liv- 

 ing, he was too modest to assume the elevated station 

 to which his genius and his learning entided him. All 

 the journals pronounce his praise ; and the first literary 

 characters unanimously agree, not only that he was 

 the greatest naturalist that Denmark ever possessed, 

 but also the ablest botanist of his age.— The king has 

 vox. II. part I. T 



