436 Additional Notes, 



10. On the Poly gala Senega, by Thomas Massie, of Virginia. 



1 1 . On the Arbutus Uva Ujsi, and Pyrola U7nbeUatu and MacU" 

 lata, by John S. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania. 



12. On the Cornus Florida, and Scricea, and the Cinch(ma Offi- 

 cinalis, by John M. Walker, of Virginia. 



Some of these academic publications have great merit : they 

 afford conclusive evidence, that this department of Natural His- 

 tory is more studied in the middle and southern than in the east- 

 ern states. It will be observed, that the authors of all tlie dis- 

 sertations above mentioned reside to the south of New York^ 

 excepting the student from Ireland. 



Note (AA), p. 184. — ^Two gentlemen of this name have con- 

 tributed to our knowledge of American plants, viz. John and Wil- 

 liam 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 

 America?! colonies^ particularly to the southward and westward ; 

 discovered many new plants, and made large collections of our 

 indigenous vegetables. (See vol. iii, chap. 2Q of this work.) 

 He made several valuable communications to Peter Collinson, 

 on diflerent subjects in zoology, which were published in the 

 Philosophical Transactions, chiefly between the years 1/43 and 

 1749. Professor Barton is preparing for the press some account 

 of this distinguished man, who may justly be styled '' one of 

 the fathers of natural history 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 gar^^en established by 

 his father, and continues to devote himself 10 botanical inquiries 

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

 and honourable to our country. 



Note (BB), ibid. — The work of professor Barton, an- 

 nounced in the above-mentioned page, bears the following title : 

 Elements of Botani/, or Outlines of the Natural History of Vege- 

 tables, &c. Svo. 1803. Dr. Barton has the honour of being the 

 first American who gave to his country an elementary work on 

 Botany ; and if we may judge of the subsequent harvest by the 

 first fruits, it will be rich indeed. This work is illusti-ated by 

 thirty plates, and discovers, an extent of learning, an acutenesa 



