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same species to Lacepede ; but Linne failed to describe 

 them. 



"Alexander Garden,* one of the earliest American natural- 

 ists, was a physician, resident in Charleston, South Carolina, in 

 the middle of the last century. He was an enthusiastic collector, 

 and in constant correspondence with the great Swedish natural- 

 ist, many of his letters, with the accompanying notes upon his 

 collections, being preserved in the two volumes of Smith's ' Cor- 

 respondence of Liunseus.' 



"He was more especially a botanist, and his contributions 

 to science in that department are fitly commemorated by the 

 name Gardenia, applied by Linnseus, in his honor, to the beauti- 

 ful Cape Jessamine. He collected, also, reptiles and fishes, and 

 was so careful and conscientious a preparator that almost all of 

 the fishes sent by him to Sweden are still in existence, though 

 the other fishes upon which Linne worked are in a much less sat- 

 isfactory state of preservation, and most of them, indeed, have 

 gone to destruction. 



" Garden's method was to skin half of the fish, leaving the 

 vertical fins attached, to press it in a botanical press, varnish it, 

 and glue it to a sheet of herbarium paper. 



" These specimens are preserved in the rooms of the Linnsean 

 Society of London, in Burlington House, in connection with the 

 Linnsean herbarium and library. 



"In the summer of 1883, by the courtesy of Dr. William 

 Murie, librarian of the Linnsean Society, we were permitted to 

 make a careful study of the Linnsean fishes, and especially of the 

 American forms, which were, as has been remarked, almost all 

 collected by Garden, and which were named and described by 



*On the American Fishes in the Linnsean Collection. By G. 

 Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. <Proc. U, S. Nat, Mus , J885, 

 193. 



