48 SOME AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANISTS 



be published and his Hortus Siccus, in folio, with 

 full marginal notes for the printer and engraver, 

 would benefit the Virginians. Unfortunately, an 

 incendiary set fire to the Town Clerk's office 

 where they were safely stowed away, and all were 

 burnt. 



When seventy-seven, Clayton made a botanical 

 tour of Orange County, then largely a wilderness, 

 and visited nearly all the settled parts of Virginia. 

 He was wont to declare that no botanist could be 

 an atheist, seeing, as he did, infinite wisdom in the 

 structure of the smallest plant. From the scanty 

 records left, it is evident that John Clayton was 

 a godly member of the Church of England and a 

 most useful citizen. 



Contributions to the Annals of Medical Progress. Toner. 



American Medical Biography. Thacher. 



Diet, of National Biography. Stephens. 



Correspondence of Linnaeus. 



Memorials of Bartram and Marshall. Darlington. 



