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André Michaux, in the latter part of the last century, 
planted gardens at Charleston, S. C., and New Durham, N. 
jJ., but they were essentially nurseries from which he sent 
seeds and plants to Europe. 
In the year 1801 Dr. David Hosack, then Professor of 
Botany and Materia Medica in Columbia College, purchased 
twenty acres of ground in New York City, and called it the 
Elgin Botanic Garden; in this tract he accumulated, with great 
labor, during the next ten years, a very large and valuable 
collection of plants. The institution was transferred to the 
State of New York, through an Act of the Legislature, in 
1810, and was then known asthe Botanic Garden of the State 
of New York. It was subsequently granted to Columbia 
College. Funds for its maintenance were not provided, 
however, and it was ultimately abandoned, Two catalogues 
of its plants were issued by Dr. Hosack, one in 1806, and an- 
other in 1811. The condition of botanical gardens in America 
at that time is indicated by the following note in Dr. Ho- 
sack’s cataloge of 1806: 
‘* I learn, with pleasure, that a Botanic Garden is pro- 
posed to be established near Boston, and connected with the 
University of Cambridge. The Legislature of Massachu- 
setts, with a munificence which does them honor, have 
granted, for this purpose, a tract of land, the value of which 
is estimated at thirty thousand dollars; and several individ- 
uals have evinced their liberality and love of science by vol- 
untary subscriptions, to the amount of fifteen thousand dol- 
lars, towards the establishment and support of that institu- 
tion. Another is also begun at Charleston, 5. C., and a 
third is contemplated in New Jersey, in connection with the 
College of Princeton.” 
In the year 1824 there was published at Lexington, Ky., 
the ‘ First Catalogues and Circulars of the Botanical Garden 
of Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., for the year 
1824,” by W. H. Richardson, M. D., President of the Board 
of Managers, and C. S. Rafinesque, Ph.D., Secretary. 
This rare pamphlet, which is not recorded in Dr. Call’s very 
