Additional Notes. 515 



this work), and the latter is from Germany. Their long 

 residence, however, in our country, gives us a kind of title 

 to the honour of their scientific character. 



CoRNUTUS. p. 142. 



CoRNUTUs was erroneously mentioned among the botanists 

 of the eighteenth century. His work was published in 1633. 



The Bartrams. p, 142. 



Two gendemen of this name have contributed to our 

 knowledge of American plants, viz. John and William 

 Bartram, both natives of Pennsylvania. John Bartram, 

 the father, was born in the year 1701, and died in 1777. He 

 was a self-taught philosopher and botanist. He travelled 

 much in the American colonies, particularly to the southward 

 and westward ; discovered many new plants, and made large 

 collections of our indigenous vegetables. (See vol. ii. chap. 26 

 of this work.) He made several valuable communications to 

 Peter Collinson, on different subjects in zoology, which 

 were published in the Philosophical Transactions^ chiefly be- 

 tween the years 1743 and 1749. Professor Barton is pre- 

 paring for the press some account of this distinguished man, 

 who may jusdy be styled " one of the fathers of natural his- 

 tory in North-America." — His son, William Bartram, 

 is still living, and advantageously known by his Travels 

 through North and South Carolina, Georgia^ East and 

 West Florida, &c. He still cultivates the garden established 

 by his father, and continues to devote himself to botanical in- 

 quiries and delineations with great zeal, and in a manner both 

 useful and honourable to our country. 



Barton'5 Elements of Botany, p. 142. 



The work of Professor Barton, announced in the above- 

 mentioned page, as being then in the press, has since been 

 published, under the following title — Elements of Botany^ 

 or Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables, &c. 8vo. 

 1803. Dr. Barton has the honour of being the first Ame- 

 rican who gave to his couutry an elementary work on Botany; 



