THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA 231 
Among the earlier men whose biographies are here given are 
many whose names are intimately associated with the history of 
botany in England. John Bartram, Humphrey Marshall, James 
ogan, and, in more recent times, Thomas Nuttall and Frederick 
Pursh, are names at least as well known in England as in America 
by contemporary correspondence and collections. This side of their 
history might, we think, have been more fully recognized ; but it 
may be that this i is intentional, as Prof. Harshberger limits himself 
for the most part to that part of their botanical career which is 
‘iasotod ‘with Philadelphia. 
rof. Harshberger modestly declines to claim completeness for 
his book, but his belief that «‘ the omissions are gfe os we think, 
oy justified. The very interesting paper by Mr. F. V. Coville 
‘The Botanical Explorations of Thomas Nuttall in California ” 
(Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xiii. 109-121) was not published in 
time for reference; it, however, supplements in many particulars 
common silo 
e do 4 fin d any mention of Patrick Kerr Rogers, who 
published af Philadelpiza. in 1802, his ‘‘ inaugural experimental 
inquiry for the degree of Doctor of Medicine ” eee i An In- 
shortly be reprinted in this Journal. 
4 ae a good many typographical errors in the book, a8 
these sometimes come rather thickly—as in p. 249, wh ores daha F 
of «Dr. Broomfield, Dr. Thomas Belsatter veg 8 ter] an 
Professor C. &. gotari. «Dr, Broomfield” is o aie F 
Dr. field, whose name geet p. er eg yey 
®) Bromfield.” fy Other slips occur, though rare 
(whose name was originally Pursch) was born not at Tobolsk, but 
at Grossenhain, in Saxon 
t times, a cross-reference would have been useful bs J 
passage relating to N uttall on p. 112 should have been rele 
in his bio raphy (pp. 151-159). - 
<a rh of includes biographies of living Se eae 
nists, the author among them. Viewed from a eas ion. ‘The 
standpoint, the work would certainly gain by compression. 
