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backwoods Perils from the Indians Visits to Florida Collin- 

 son's titled friends List of the seeds of trees and plants yearly 

 sent to England The introduction of American trees to 

 British parks Lord Petre The Dukes of Richmond The 

 Goodwood cedars The Hanbury cedars at Coggeshall Water 

 tortoises and mud turtles Outline of Bartram's life and character 

 Story of his garden Collinson's garden, now occupied by 

 Mill Hill School Account of the trees still standing His intro- 

 ductions Letters to Linnaeus The migration of swallows 

 Work in the Royal Society Collinson leads Franklin to experi- 

 ment in Electricity Fothergill publishes Franklin's first treatise 

 Generous recognition of Franklin by the Royal Society 

 Collinson's person and character The onset of spring in his 

 garden Fothergill on Collinson. 



CHAPTER XIV 

 FOTHERGILL AS A BOTANIST His GARDEN . .182 



The pursuits of Fothergill Early botanic gardens in Britain 

 FothergilPs garden at Upton, 1762 His collectors abroad 

 William Bartram, field botanist and artist His five years' 

 wanderings in the Southern American provinces Extracts from 

 his Travels : The variety of vegetable nature ; the instinct of 

 tendrils ; the language of birds ; an adventure at the Isle of 

 Palms ; rencontre with a Seininole Indian ; how to treat the 

 Indians Humphry Marshall, another Quaker botanist Fother- 

 gilPs "Directions for taking up Plants and conveying them by 

 Sea " His American border at Upton Nelumbium, the great 

 water-lily of the Delaware The tea-tree Use of tea Jonas 

 Hanway and Wesley The tea flowers in Fothergill's garden, 

 1774 Chinese Ginseng Illicium, the starry Anise Arbutus 

 Andrachne Story of the barrel of earth from Borneo Paintings 

 of plants in full bloom Sale after Fothergill's death Upton 

 under Samuel Gurney The present West Ham Park A recent 

 visit : Fothergill's trees Some of his chief introductions to 

 Britain Linnaeus names the genus Fotkergilla. 



APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIV 

 LIST OF PLANTS INTRODUCED BY DR. JOHN FOTHERGILL . 203 



CHAPTER XV 



FOTHERGILL'S OTHER SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS . . 208 



Papers for the Royal Society The origin of amber, 1744 

 Thomas Story on the Scarborough cliffs Paper on Siberia, 1 748 



