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the value of the work in which he has been for many 

 years engaged, " On the Instincts and Manners of Ani- 

 mals." 



Mr. Barton also made a large collection of the Mine- 

 ral Productions of Pennsylvania, the greater part of 

 which has come into the hands of the Editor. In this 

 collection, there are many rare specimens of the ores 

 and clays of Pennsylvania : and the fossil objects, repre- 

 senting the impressions or images of organized bo- 

 dies, would be deemed a valuable acquisition to any 

 cabinet. 



But these were not the only services which he ren- 

 dered to science. Though uninstructed, without the 

 aid of a master, he excelled in the arts of Drawing and 

 Painting. A portion of the leisure which he was able 

 to snatch from the duties of his public station*; and 

 not a little of the time which he was put in possession 

 of by repeated attacks of the painful and distress- 

 ing maladyf which ultimately removed him from his 

 friends and the world, were employed in painting, after 

 nature, many of the animal productions of his country. 

 His drawings, especially those of the birds and fishes of 

 Pennsylvania, are acknowledged, by many competent 

 judges, to be some of the most beautiful in natural his- 



* Mr. Barton was eleven years a member of the legislature of 

 his native state, viz. : eight years a member of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, and three of the Senate. 



+ A hereditary Gout 



