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Francis tells us that he was for thirty years the acknowledged 

 head of the teachers of chemistry in New York.* 



A zealous promoter of zoology in those days was F. Adrian 

 Vanderkemp, of Oldenbarnavelt, New York, who in 1795, we 

 are told, delivered an address before an Agricultural Society in 

 Whitesburg, N. Y., in which he offered premiums for essays 

 upon certain subjects, among which was one " for the best ana- 

 tomical and historical account of the moose, fifty dollars, or for 

 bringing one in alive, sixty dollars."! 



Having mentioned several American naturalists of foreign 

 birth, it may not be out of place to refer to the American origin 

 of an English zoologist of high repute, Dr. Thomas Horsfield, 

 born in Philadelphia in 1773, and after many years in the East 

 became, in 1820, a resident of London, where he died in 1859. 

 His name is prominent among those of the entomologists, bota- 

 nists, and ornithologists of this century, especially in connection 

 with Java. 



XI. 



In New England, science was more highly appreciated than in 

 New York. Massachusetts had in John Adams a man who, like 

 Franklin and Jefferson, realized that scientific institutions were 

 the best protection for a democratic government, and to his efforts 

 America owes its second scientific society the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1780. When Mr. Adams 

 travelled from Boston to Philadelphia, in the days just before 

 the Revolution, he several times visited at Norwalk, we are told, 

 a curious collection of American birds and insects made by Mr. 

 Arnold. "This was afterwards sold to Sir Ashton Lever, in 

 whose apartments in London Mr. Adams saw it again, and felt 

 i new regret at our imperfect knowledge of the productions of 



* GRISCOM, JOHN H.: Memoir of John Griscom. New York, 1859. 

 t DeWitt Clinton, in Trans. Lt. Phil. Soc. N. Y., p. 59. 



