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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN i 



Portrait after the picture in pastel by Joseph S. Duplessis, 1783. 

 JOHN AND WILLIAM BARTRAM 24 



Portrait of William Bartram after an engraving in The Cabinet of 



Natural History and American Rural Sports, Philadelphia, 1832. 

 JOHN WINTHROP 40 



Portrait after a painting by Copley belonging to his family. 

 DAVID RITTENHOUSE 47 



Portrait after a painting by C. W. Peale. 

 GOTTHILF HEINRICH ERNST MUHLENBERG 58 



Portrait after a painting belonging to his family. 

 SAMUEL LATHAM MITCHILL 71 x 



Portrait after an engraving loaned by Dr. Henry Carrington Bolton, a 



kinsman. 

 BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON 81 



Portrait after an engraving in the Biography of him by W. P. C. Barton. 

 ALEXANDER WILSON 90 



Portrait after a steel engraving by W. J. Alais in Wilson's Poems and 



Literary Prose. 

 DAVID HOSACK 100 



Portrait after a painting belonging to Columbia College. 

 AMOS EATON in 



Portrait after a steel engraving by A. H. Ritchie. 

 GERARD TROOST ' . .119 



Portrait after a painting in the Hall of the Academy of Natural Sciences 



of Philadelphia. 

 CHARLES ALEXANDRE LESUEUR 128 



Portrait after a painting in the Hall of the Academy of Natural Sciences 



of Philadelphia. 

 BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, THE ELDER 140 



Portrait after a photograph coloured in oil belonging to his family. 



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