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for Philadelphia and the world, the descendants of Bea with 
sympathetic help fro m Thomas M eehan, then a member of the 
city council, secured hes purchase of the Serdar) by the city of 
Philadelphia for a public par 
The sketch of Bartram, considered chiefly in relation to his 
garden, includes extracts from Washington’s Memorials (1849)— 
a storehouse of _ageaetp ee rendered alm useless by the 
absenc af n ind which is included his _correspondence 
Kalm, Gordon; Sloane, — mes oe, Dillenius, and others. The 
book contains a photographic reproduction of a letter from 
Bartram to Fothergill, Tethered “the original is now in South 
Kensington Museum herbarium,” by which is intended the 
Department of Botany : eu is one of seven there preserved, with 
much other interesting Bartram material, including two volumes 
of the Sloane Herbarium (333 and 334) of plants collected by 
Bartram, with labels in his hand. The Department also contains 
Collinson’s MS. ‘ Account of the introduction of American seeds 
into acon 1766), the collection and a rials of which 
by Bartram is mentioned 2 the writer of the little 
A sree ce may be made here to a ver interesting account 
of Bartram with which hatacioes ea ees are doubtless familiar, 
as which is not, we think, generally known in this country. 
appears in the Letters of an American Farmer, first pub- 
re in 1782, by J. Hector St. John de me Aba habe 22): 
this 
a Norman who settled in Ulster County, Nev 
eae is devoted to a letter “from Mr. eats Z, & heuie 
gentleman; describing the visit he paid at my reqiest to Mr. 
John Bertram, the celebrated Pensylvanian Botanist.” T 
rt a 
: ed d 
York in 1908 suggests that the “ Russian core had no real 
existence, but was probably Crévecceur himse 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
Our attention has been called to a reissue of Anne Pratt’s 
Wild Flowers of the Year, by the Religious Tract Society, which 
from a bibliographical standpoint demands a word of protest. 
Issued in 1913, there is nothing in the “ Foreword” to intimate 
that this is not a new book: it w was, however, first published 
by the R. T. 8. asa shilling volume in or before , in which 
: the anes died in 1893. The little 
a bial in its eae quite useful: it is now, of course, both in 
some attic erman book: of t 
ibed in an appendix, and indexed fg the Rev. Professor 
descri ppe 
George Henslow,” sixteen are of foreign plants, “allied,” says the 
