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Transylvania University (now the State University of Kentucky); 
for the rest of his life his home was in Philadelphia, where n died 
in poverty. 
Richardson, John (1787-1865). Scottish zoologist; naturalist of the 
Franklin expeditions of 1819-22 and 1825-27; knighted 1846; 
commander of an expedition in search of Franklin, 1848-49. He 
collected plants on all of his travels and wrote the botanical 
appendixes to the reports of Franklin’s first journey and his own 
expedition, as well as several other botanical papers. 
Say, Thomas (1787-1834). Zoologist: one of the earliest members of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, from 1812 
onward, and one of its most energetic and brilliant promoters; 
naturalist to both of Long’s western exploring expeditions, 1819- 
20 and 1823; was a member of the New Harmony community 
in 1825, and continued to make his home at New Harmony until 
his death. His chief interest was in entomology and conchology: 
in his travels, however, he collected many plants; Rosa Sayi, 
one of these, was name for him by Schweinitz. 
Saynish, Lewis. Physician, at 404 Broadway, New York City, about 
1830-32; this correspondence gives evidence of his familiarity 
with botany. 
Schwagrichen, Christian Friedrich (1775-1853). German physician, 
for fifty years (1802-52) a professor on the medical faculty of the 
university of Leipzig. He was especially interested in the study 
of cryptogamic plants; it was in his hands that Schweinitz left the 
manuscript of his synopsis of Carolina fungi in 1818; and it was 
he who published it in 1822, Schweinitz knowing nothing of its 
publication until he received printed copies of it from Schwag- 
richen. 
Scouler, John (1804-1871). Scottish physician and naturalist; he 
collected plants on the west coast of North America in 1825-27, 
among them the moss upon which his former teacher, the elder 
Hooker, based the genus Scouleria. 
Sealy, 
Ireland. 
Physician and local botanist, of Bandon, in southern 
Silliman, Benjamin (1779-1864). American geologist; graduate of 
Yale, and professor there for nearly sixty years; founder of the 
“American journal of science and arts,” which has now been 
published consecutively for more than a hundred years. 
