THE BOTAXLSTS OF PIIir.ADELPIlIA. U3 



'■ In tcnperamcnt l,o was irritable and even choleric 

 His spirits were irregular, his manners consequently 

 variable, impetuous, vehement. Tiiese repeated vacillations 

 between equanimity and depression were generally owing 

 to the sudden and repeated attacks of his continual earthlv 

 companion — irregular gout. 



"In fixmiliar conversation he was often eloquent 

 remarkably facetious, but never witty. 



fault" '^' ''^ ^'''''"' ''' ''"' ^''''^' *"''^"' ''"'^ '"'^"'«^"' to a 

 Dr. Barton corresponded with many prominent natural- 

 ists and physicians at home and abroad. He established 

 an enviable foreign reputation, and was elected a member 

 of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, the Danish 

 Koyal Society of Sciences, the Danish Medical Society the 

 Linna^an Society of London, and the Society of Antiquaries 

 of Scotland. 



FREDERICK PURSH. 



Frederick Pursh was born at Tobolsk, in Siberia in 

 1774, of German parentage.* He was educated in Dresden 

 and came to this country in 1799, establishing himself in' 

 Philadelphia. He was able to make the acquaintance not 

 only of Muhlenberg, who survived until 1815, and of Wm 

 Bartram, who died in 1823, but also of the veteran' 

 Humphry Marshall, who died in 1805. He says : 



" Not far from the latter place are also tlie' extensive 

 gardens^ William Hamilton, Esq., called the AVoodlands,t 



