558 TIMOTHY PICKERING [1786. 



therefore wish you may expedite the correction as soon as possible : 

 when I shall get Mr. Cist to revise and to publish it, as soon as 

 possible. 



I am, with great regard, 



Dear sir, your assured friend, 



Sam. Vaughan. 



Philadelphia, 22d May, 1786. 



Dear Sir : 



Doctor Sam. Williams, Hoi. Prof, of Cambridge College, Mas- 

 sachusetts, wishes to ascertain the climate, in different parts of 

 America, by meteorological observations which are customary ; and 

 to mark the times when several of the fruits of the field vegetate, 

 and animals first begin to appear, &c, with an inclosed plan : to 

 add to the materials of American knowledge. 



As the design deserves encouragement, I have taken the liberty 

 to inclose one, requesting the favour, if you or any of your friends 

 find time, to note these appearances ; and, should opportunity offer, 

 to inclose the result to the Doctor ; otherwise to me, which will 

 much oblige, 



Dear sir, your assured friend, 



Sam. Vaughan. 



TIMOTHY PICKERING* TO H. MARSHALL. 



Philadelphia, February 15th, 1786. 



Sir: 



Mr. Vaughan handed to the Philadelphia Society of Agri- 

 culture, your Observations on the propriety of applying Botanical 

 knowledge to Agriculture, feeding cattle, &c. The paper was read 

 last evening before the Society, who are much obliged by the 

 communication. They believe such application would be of very 

 extensive utility ; and would be very happy to receive a plan for 



* The character and career of Timothy Pickering, as a soldier, statesman, 

 and patriot, it is presumed, is too familiarly known, to every American, at least, 

 to require a detailed notice here. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, July 

 17th, 1745; graduated at Harvard College in 1763; served in various capacities, 

 civil and military, throughout the revolutionary contest ; was subsequently at the 

 head of every Executive Department of the General Government, under President 

 Washington ; and for years after that, a senator and representative in Congress, 

 &c. He was, also, a devoted friend to the interests and pursuits of Agriculture. 

 His death took place January 29th, 1829, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. 



