iB\S Additional Notes. 



cal Gardais in various parts of her colonies, and of foreign 

 countries. A piece of land, of moderate fertility and extent, 

 hired or purchased at the public expense, served, in the dis- 

 tant country where it was situated, as an home for a Botanist, 

 a repository for the seeds he might collect, and a nursery for the 

 plants he should cultivate. From establishments of this na- 

 ture, in distant regions, rich treasures of botanical specimens 

 and information have been transmitted to France. 



The late king of France provided two gardens of this 

 kind in the United States; one in Bergen County, in the 

 State of New-Jersey, within eight or nine miles of the city 

 of New- York ; the other in South-Carolina. The Botanist 

 employed to superintend these, and to perform all the duties 

 of J botanical pensionary, was M. Andrew Michaux, who 

 has lately distinguished himself by his Ilistoire des dimes da 

 VJmeriijne^ <kc. Paris. 1801. folio. 



The first person in America who conceived and carried into 

 efFect the design of a Botanic Garden for the reception and 

 cultivation of American vegetables, as well as exotics, was 

 the celebrptcd Jofin Bartram, mentioned in a former note. 

 His establishmen% though small, and scarcely worthy of the 

 name, when con^parcd with those of Europe, was respectable, 

 considering the situation of the proprietor, and is now pro- 

 babiy the best in our country. Those formed and supported 

 by tiie French government, though calculated to answer the 

 purposes intended, were also far from being regular or com- 

 plete botanical gardens. Nothing that deserves this character 

 has vet been estahiislied in America, It is hoped the plan now 

 in execution by Professor iiosACK, of Columbia College, 

 will be fostered by die public, and succeed better than any 

 former attempts. 



Mineralogy. 



Minerals arc arranged either according to their erternal 

 characterSj or their chemical composition. The former is 

 called an artificial method of classification ; the latter a na- 

 tural one. LiNN-^us was the first, and, indeed, the only 

 mineralogist among the moderns, who undertook to form an 

 arrangement of minerals from their external characters alone. 

 And Cronstedt has the honour of being the first who in- 

 troduced a jiatural method. Abraham G. Werner, the 

 celebrated mineralogist of Freyberg, in Germany, in 1774, 



