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Ern. Godofr. Baldinger, 



olim in Aca. Jememsi Prof. Bot. 



et Med. Theoret. ; in Acad. Goettingensi 



Med. Pract. ; in Academia Marburgensi 



Ord. Medicor. Prof. Primarius. 



Anno 1801 



"The prefatory note by Wangenheim is published in the account 

 of the MS. given in Schrader's Journal fur die Botanik for 1800 

 (Gottingen, 1801) p. 468. The following is a translation : 



'This MS., which has never been printed, contains a part of the 

 New York Flora, and has been composed by a lady, the daughter of 

 Governor Cadwallader Golden, well known for his botanical works, 

 and also a physician. This lady married a doctor of medicine, Farquer 

 (Farquhar), a Scotchman by birth, and she died soon afterwards. 

 Some of the names are according to her father and according to 

 Gronovius, and some are according to the Brandenburg doctor 

 Schoepff, who has read this work. The trivial names are according 

 to Linnaeus. 



' This work is a remarkable one because it is that of a lady who 

 possessed such a love for botany that she learned Latin, and judging 

 by its nature is so worthy and correct that it contains many even 

 minute things. 



' This is written by F. von Wangenheim, 



Captain in the Field-Jager Corps of the Landgrave of Hesse 

 New York, May, 1782.' 



" It will be observed that this narrative contradicts Gray's state- 

 ment that Jane Golden died unmarried : Pritzel accepts Schrader's 

 account but adds, ' Moriens (1754) Fioram manuscriptam Novi 

 Eboraci tabulis ornatam reliquit Wangenheimio.' If the MS. 

 was bequeathed to Wangenheim, it is strange that he did not say 

 so : the date given for her death is certainly inaccurate. Wan- 

 genheim's statement that she ' learned Latin ' is contrary to her 

 father's account, but probably only means that she acquired the 

 Latin names of the plants she described ; the descriptions in the 

 MS. (to which she gave no title) are all in English. 



" The actual number of figures is 340 : the numbers of the 

 descriptions run to 341, but these are really less numerous, as a 

 good many pages are blank, save for the name of the plant at 

 their head. This suggests that the figures were made before the 



