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amiable and simple-hearted man, in 1768 ; and by him many 
seeds, living plants, and interesting observations, were communi- 
cated to Linneeus, but few if any dried specimens. Dr. Garden, 
who was a native of Scotland, resided at Charleston, South Caro- 
lina, from about 1745 to the commencement of the American 
Revolution, devoting all the time he could redeem from an ex- 
tensive medical practice to the zealous pursuit of botany and zo- 
ology. His chief correspondent was Ellis at London, but through 
Ellis he commenced a correspondence with Linnzus; and to 
both he sent manuscript descriptions of new plants and animals, 
With many excellent critical observations, None of his speci- 
mens addressed to the latter reached their destination, the ships 
by which they were sent having been intercepted by French 
cruisers; and Linnzeus complained that he was often unable to 
make out many of Dr. Garden’s genera for want of the plants 
themselves, Ellis Was sometimes more fortunate; but as he 
Seems usually to have contented himself with the transmission 
‘of descriptions alone, we find no authentic specimens from Gar- 
den in the Linnean herbarium. 
We have now probably mentioned all the North American cor- 
respondents of Linneus ; for Dr. Kuhn, who appears only to have 
brought him living specimens of the plant which bears his name, 
and Catesby, who shortly before his death sent a few living plants 
which his friend Lawson had collected in Carolina, can scarcely 
be reckoned among the number.* 
against a botanist of these latter days. “I have had the pleasure,” Collinson 
Writes, “of reading your Species Plantarum, a very useful and laborious work. 
received, and adding new names quite unknown to us. Thus botany, which was 
® pleasant Study, and attainable by most men, is now become, by alterations and 
tei oc study of a man’s life, and none now but real professors can pre- 
~ Acne it. As I love you, I tell you our sentiments.’’—Letter of April 20, 
. ‘You have begun by your Species Plantarum; but if you will be for ever 
ver note names, and altering old and good ones, for such hard names that con- 
nie: pie the plant, it will be impossible to attain to a perfect knowledge in 
Corresponden gs a of April 10th, 1755; from Smith’s Selection of the 
remains all summer long on the mountains there. I am now giving in- 
medical student here, who is a native of that country, and will re- 
