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botanical travels in Europe and the Orient, landed at New York 
late in 1785, and spent more than ten years in America, dita 
throughout the known parts of the country from Hudson Bay to 
Florida, and as far west as Kentucky and the Re er settle- 
ments. On his travels he was sometimes accompanied by his 
son, Frangois André, who was only fifteen years old upon their 
first arrival. ees all ae years, although fora part of the 
engaged upon a political mission for the French 
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ee Michaux seems to have had in mind the accumulation 
of material for a general flora of North America, and when he 
returned to France in 1796 he carried with him an herbarium of 
North American plants such as had never before been brought 
Boa His flora was edited by the famous French botanist 
ichard, and published at Paris in 1803; meanwhile the 
man whose labors had made this great undertaking possible of 
accomplishment had lost his life on the island of Madagascar. 
The son, Frangois André Michaux, eee America in the 
years 1801-03, traveling through t en extreme west, Ohio, 
Kentucky, and Tennessee. He eee published an elab- 
orately illustrated history of the forest trees of North America, 
and several other works relating to our flora; and, at his death, 
in 1855, he left to the American Philosophical Society a fund for 
the development of American arboriculture 
Frederick Pursh was a native of Saxony. He came to America 
in 1799, and spent nearly twelve years here, engaged much of 
the time in botanical collecting trips. He sai ries Gee on 
foot, and without companionship save perhaps of a dog. 
According to his own statements, he was as far to oe northeast 
as New Hampshire and as far south as the mountains of North 
Carolina, but as far as collateral evidence is concerned there is 
no proof that he was farther northeast than Vermont or farther 
south than southern Virginia ; and, unfortunately, the reputation 
of Frederick Pursh for strict veracity is not of the best. In the 
course of his travels, however, he made the acquaintance of 
nearly all the botanists then living in this country, and was per- 
mitted to examine all the herbaria then existing here; and, uN 
his return to Europe, he found in England, where he made 
