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ean botanist, Johann Schoepf* and a West Indian, ane 
L’ Herminier,} collected plants about Charleston. This lis 
brings us up to the beginning of the nineteenth century and : 
might likewise continued to ie hase tin ime. Bos Charles- 
ton has hada of t 
exotic bani and plant arros extending over a period 
of more n two centuries. Nei n 
in native ae nists of more or less distinction. This line also 
ad an early beginning. About the time of Mark Catesby’s 
ir 
beg: 
at Charleston. fter him came James Macbride,§ Stephen 
Elliott, || and John L. E. W. Shecut. 9] 
= Johann David Schoepf (1752-1800) was an amy surgeon sash bel pean 
and ‘fotanist, “keenly interested in America but confined to garrison duty in New 
vote Philadelphia, ae canoer teland throughout me war, ns Femained after the 
¢ Bahama Islands. pub- 
lubed in 1788, in two ee He was ae the author - me earliest ae on 
87). The las 
d t Ansbach.—J. H. B. 
Félix Louis nee Ma7e- 1833) Jesided in \ the island of ere 
in the West Indies, w: he mad: , most of the time fro: 
1795 to 1829. He happe! aan to be in Charleston in 1815, when the nts 
M blished i h 4 ry of 
t Alexan Aberdeen, 
and after receiving 5 his medical degree at Edinburgh began the practice - his 
man, of the colony. His loyalty to the British crown durii the Revolution 
compelled his return to England, where he died. He began the study of plants 
n his arrival in Charleston in 1752; a friend of Bartram and Colden, 
and a correspondent of Linnaeus, eee Hai Gronovius, and other eminent 
botanists.—J. H. B. 
Macbride (1784-1817), a Yale graduate, and practitioner of medicine 
at pactle pouth Soe was an enthusiastic botanist ante a ts rie: caer . eae 
JHB 
ale, 
4 raduate of Y: he I 
£ So wat Carolina as pean and senator in the State Legislature, and 
as ee of the State Ba ne fort nearly twenty years, was the author of the 
