276 Nations lately become Literary. [Ch. XXVI. 



The sciences of Chemistry, Natural History, 

 and Medicijie, have long been, and continue to 

 be, more successfully cultivated in the middle and 

 southern than in the eastern states. The same 

 reasons apply in this case that were suggested 

 with respect to classic literature. Comparatively 

 few young men have been sent, at any period, 

 from the eastern states to European seminaries to 

 complete their medical education. Beside this 

 consideration, foreigners, even of literary and 

 scientific character, have received less encourage- 

 ment to settle in those states than in most other 

 parts of the union. On the other hand, from the 

 middle and southern states a number of young 

 men have been sent every year to the medical 

 schools of Europe, who not only attended the or- 

 dinary courses of instruction in Medicine, strictly 

 so called, but also the lectures delivered on Che- 

 mistry and Natural History, as important auxi- 

 liary branches of philosophy. It is further to be 

 observed, that several learned and enterprising 

 foreigners, who visited and resided for some time 

 in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South 

 Carolina, devoted much of their time and atten- 

 tion to natural history*; excited some of the 

 native citizens, in their respective neighbour- 



* There is a particular reference here to Catesby, Garden, 

 and Walter, who resided in South Carolina ; to Mitchell, who 

 spent a number of years in Virginia; to professor talm, who 

 devoted several years to travelling in the middle states; to 

 Schoepf and Wangenheim, who came to America with the Ger- 

 man troops during the revolutionary war ; to whom may be 

 added Dr. Golden and Dr. Muhlenberg, whose talents and zeal 

 ill the study of botany have been before repeatedly mentioned. 



