JOHN GLAYTON 299 
ides to the second part of the Flora as well as in that of the 
econd edition, both J. F. and L. T. Gronovius give the fullest 
mis to Clayton for his wba 
e account given by Mr. Hunt differs from the above in 
important particulars: the earlier portion runs thus:—‘ His 
father was the attorney- beget 7 of Virginia, and the son left 
n 1705. He 
England and joined him 5. appears to ge studied 
medicine, botany, and, to some extent, chemistry. sent to the 
Royal Society, i in 1739, a — i Vapetenenta eikerhinig 
the Spirit of Coals,’ which paper was published in the Philoso- 
phical Transactions.’ Through the i infil ence of his este Clayton 
was appointed secretary of Gloucester county, which office he held for 
many years. His position allowed him the leisure for suai 
‘Philosophical Transactions.’ ”’ Passing over the first italicized 
s 
years and started on his culo voyage in May, ey) 
first mapeaeriy iesisn was sent to the Royal Society May 12, 1688, by 
which time he was “rector of Crofton at Wakefield in Yorkshire,” 
and pabbened | in Phil. Trans. xvii. 781-795. Further accounts of 
Virginia—the climate, people, — birds and the cultivation of 
tobacco—appeare - ie Phil. Trans. xvii. j and xviii, 121.* 
After his death, which, time wh was Dean of Kildare, there 
appeared in Phil. pnens xli. (1789) a further paper which “ may 
serve as a sequel to the accounts of Virginia formerly given, 
dealing largely with the uses of the native plants, and three short 
chemical papers; these were communicated by Robert Clayton, 
botanist, who ‘“ was a strict though not ostentatious observer o 
the practice of the Church oe England” (Philad. Journ. ii. 142) 
was ages to the Rev. John Clayton and to the Bishop. 
yomd portion of Mr. Hunt’s article, which refers to 
ried plants, and ee agp eR with the celebrated Swedish 
naturalist, John Frederick Gronovius, they published ‘ Flora Vir- 
ginica exhibens Plantas quas in Virginia Clayton collegit,’ Leyden, 
1739 and 1745. These parts were reissued after Clayton’s death 
t may be noted that in the General Index to Phil. Trans. i.—lxx. the four 
Siro apart placed under Robert Clayton should be assigned to John, and that 
the former is styled Bishop of Cloyne instead of Bishop of Cor 
