Account of Mr. John Bamster. 139 



plantas mira industria indagavit et descripsit, rarioresque 

 propria manu ad vivum delineavit ; infelici tandem et 

 deplorando casu, antequam Historian! Naturalem istius 

 provinciae, qiiam pros manibus habuit, perfecerat, dum 

 rupes incautius scanderet, rebus humanis exemptus est," 



A'ote B, page 136. Mr. Lawson, after mentioning 

 a good many of the plants of Carolina, says, " Had not 

 the ingenious Mr. Banister (the greatest Virtuoso we 

 ever had on the Continent) been unfortunately taken out 

 of the world, he would have given the best account of 

 the plants of America, of any that ever yet made such 

 an attempt in these parts." A New Voyage to Caro- 

 lina, Sec. p. 78. 



ni. Memorandums of the Lives atid Literary Labours 

 of Mr. William Veiinon and Dr. David Kriec, 

 By the Editor. 



THE country of Maryland, which, considering 

 its extent, is one of the richest fields for the exertions 

 of the American botanist, M'as visited, towards the latter 

 end of the seventeenth century, by two botanists, whose 

 names are worthy of preservation in this work ; one of 

 the objects of which is to mark the rise and progress, 

 and to display the present condition, of Natural History 

 in the United- States. Of the lives of these botanists, 

 however, only a few scanty and very imperfect materi- 

 als are preserved. 



