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ceased to look forward, as I still look forward, 

 to the time when Natural History, including 

 Botany, shall be taught as an indispensable 

 branch in our University." 



In 1805 he started publishing the Medical and 

 Physical Journal, and he also wrote many short 

 articles on topics connected with medicine, his- 

 tory and archaeology, much of his work appear- 

 ing in the Transactions of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society. 



He was remembered by his immediate suc- 

 cessors in the University as a man of extraordi- 

 nary industry, quick to perceive his own limita- 

 tions, equally quick to recognize the man who 

 could help, yet keeping step with him for accu- 

 rate data by means of his wonderful memory and 

 appreciation of fine detailing. 



In temperament he was irritable and even 

 choleric, and his manners were consequently 

 variable, impetuous, vehement. So writes his 

 nephew, William P. C. Barton, and this, of a 

 tuberculous, gouty man loaded up with work, is 

 probably accurate. He had married (1797) a 

 daughter of Edward Pennington, of Philadel- 

 phia, and had two children, a son, Thomas Pen- 

 nant, who was American Charge d'Affaires in 

 Paris, 1836, and a daughter. 



Owing to constant attacks of gout, Barton was 

 unable to take long botanical excursions like his 



