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few of the colored plates in European botanical and 
and France from South Carolina and t iguous territory. 
Before the beginning of the eighteenth century, about 1696, 
dmund Bo! and Robert Ellis sent specimens from Charles- 
ton to Londo: In 1722 Mark Catesby} came n ne. 
About 1760 Tho: altert came fro: land and settled 
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of botanists to Charleston. In 1760 the Bartrams§ began a 
Edmund Bohun ees 1734), son of the famous English writer of the same 
name, ee thant at Cher pen from. 2096 until the summer of 17 
With hi. ane Robert Ellis h tiver and 
Sloane; te are still preserved in the ‘herbarium at the Batch Museum 
(Natural History). Fe ohn He: ndley Barnhar 
an Englishman 
+ Mark Catesby 
before he was a fort years oe was sO impressed ae the strange ain ‘objects 
about him t 
them. He arrived at Charleston in 1722, and collected and painted alae and 
animals in South Carolina, Georgia, ree and the Bahamas, for 
ral history of Carolina, end eke 
the Bahama Islands,” published. in 11 ee (1730-48), and completed only 
shortly before his death. i i 
J. H. 
} Thomas oe oe an [es by birth, nen in South 
Carolina as a plant in early life. His ‘‘Flora caroliniana’’ (1788) is astonishing 
when considered as nine work cof a solitary stu’ lent in an ee field, and will 
intain i iti ter’s grave, in wha s once 
d bl merica, is now in a forest 
his garden, b 1 
wilderness. The British National Herbarium contains a collection of plants 
by Walter, presumably several years before the publication of his Flora. 
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§ John Lente (1699-1777). the first native American botanist, was greatly 
with Peter Collinson Seaman of London, who eventually occured him an 
appointment as ‘‘King’s botanist.’’ Bartram traveled and c cee from New 
York to Florida. He first rae Charleston in n March, 1760, an d again in the 
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summer of 1765 
in Georgia and Flori 
illiam oe Gis 23) had the advantage of a better education, and 
of association with his father’s scientific work from childhood. He accompanied 
on the St. cine River, here h d ab In 1772 he began the 
Li Georgia, and Florida in hi 7 
extensiv 
