Biographies of Botanists. 



JAMES LOGAN. 



James Logan,* one of the fathers of Pennsylvania, 

 and greatly distinguished for his learning and worth, 

 was born at Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, October 20, 

 1674. He came to America in company with William 

 Penn, in 1699. In 1701 he was appointed Secretary of the 

 Province of Pennsylvania, and Clerk of the Council. He 

 was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 

 from 1731-39, and, as President of the Council, was for two 

 years acting Governor of the Colony, after the death of 

 Governor Gordon in 1736. Several years previous to his 

 death he retired from public affairs, and spent the latter 

 part of his life among his books, and in corresponding with 

 learned men in different parts of Europe. He died near 

 Germantown, October 31, 1751, bequeathing his library of 

 2000 volumes to the City of Philadelphia, which now forms 

 part of the Philadelphia Library under the name, Loganian 

 Library. In 1735 he published his experiments upon 

 maize in support of Linnsean doctrine of sex in plants. The 

 results of the experiments were given in brief in the letter 

 to Peter Collinson, published in the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions (34 : 192-195), and later a full account was published 

 in Latin, in a work entitled, " Experimenta et Meletemata 

 de Plantarum Generatione, etc., auctore Jacobo Logan, 

 Judice Supremo and Prseside Concilii Provincise Pensilvaniensis 

 in America, Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Cornelium Haak, 



* 1849. Darlington— J/emo7-ia?5 of Bartram and Marshall, p. 307. 



