38 PIONEERS OF SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 



author of Anecdotes of a Cro** T md Description of Certhia. In 

 1789 he wrote Observatio!' ' on the Creek and Cherokee In- 

 dians, which was published in 1851, in the Transactions of the 

 American Ethnological Society, Vol. III. Our portrait of him 

 is from an engraving which formed the frontispiece to the sec- 

 ond volume of the Cabinet of Natural History and American 

 Rural Sports, published in Philadelphia in 1832 by J. & T. 

 Dougherty. Concerning its authenticity the statement is made 

 in the accompanying biographical sketch that " the portrait is a 



FIG. 3. NETHER STONE OF JOHN BARTRAM'S CIDER MILL. 



correct likeness of Mr. Bartram, and the only engraved one 

 ever given to the American public." It will be observed that 

 the date of the publication of this portrait was only nine years 

 after William Bartram's death. 



In the old stone house the great fireplace has been filled 

 up, although but few other changes have been made. The 

 building is full of curious turns and cubby-holes. Connected 

 with a cupboard in the sitting room is a recess running behind 

 the chimney, which furnished a safe depository in winter for 

 specimens that frost could injure. Back of the sitting room, 

 in the wing of the building, is an apartment with large windows 

 looking toward the south, which was the botanist's conserva- 



