NU LTALA: 
HOMAS NUTTALL, an American natu- 
ralist, born in Yorkshire in 1784. e 
learned the trade of a printer, and so improved 
his time as to acquire a thorough knowledge of 
the Greek and Latin languages. He came to the 
United States at the age of twenty-two; was 
employed at his business in Philadelphia, and 
devoted much of his time to the study of 
ornithology and botany. At Philadelphia he 
attended all lectures on scientific subjects ; and, 
having obtained an introduction to Dr. Barton, 
the botanist, by whom at the conclusion of one 
of his lectures, he was referred for further in- 
formation to the celebrated Wm. Bartram, and to 
the kindness and attention he received from him, 
whom he often refers to in his works as “ his 
venerable friend,’”’ the world is indebted for the 
sealing of those scientific proclivities, which has 
since made his name famous. From 1808 his 
progress in botanical science was very rapid, 
gathering his knowledge, as he had done his past 
education, by his own efforts alone. His botanical 
trips were frequent and arduous, one of his earliest 
being to investigate thoroughly the plants of the 
peninsula formed by the Delaware and the Ches- 
apeake. As his knowledge of things at home 
became more perfect he thirsted for more in- 
formation, and boldly penetrated (usually alone) 
: many hundreds of miles into theinterior, making 
