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interesting Memorials a) John Bartram and Humphry Marshall, 

 edited (but alas I not indexed) by William Darlington, and pub- 

 lished at Philadelphia in 1849. Young was apparently appointed 

 " Botanist to their Majestys " in 1764, for on Sept. 23rd of that 

 year we find Bartram writing : — " My neighbour Young's sudden 

 preferment has astonished great part of our inhabitants. They 

 are daily talking to me about him, that he has got more honour 

 by a few miles' travelling to pick up a few common plants, than 

 I have by me on thirty years' travel, with great danger and peril. 

 It is shocking, the plants you have had, many of them known a 

 hundred years, and most twenty or thirty, should be esteemed at 

 Court as new discoveries. Several of my friends put me upon 

 sending my new discovered specimens to the King, to try my 

 success. Accordingly I have put up a little box of such specimens 

 as I am sure he never found, and I believe never came to Eng- 

 land, before I sent them."* On October 15th, Bartram again 

 writes to Collinson : — "Various are the opinions of Young's suc- 

 cess. Some think he will make such an awkward appearance at 

 court that he will soon come back again. Others, that the Queen 

 will take care of the German gentleman. I think that if he is put 

 under Dr. Hill's care,f he will make a botanist, as he is very 

 industrious and hath a good share of ingenuity." He then proceeds 

 again to urge his claims : — " I hope thee will find some way to 

 forward the box I sent to thee, for the King ; not that I depend 

 on having any such preferment as Young had, but chiefly as a 

 curiosity, to see what difference will be made betwixt such rare 

 plants as never grew in Europe or Asia, and such as have been 

 growing in the English gardens between twenty and one hundred 

 years past ; for such, I believe, were most that Young sent. But 

 I and several others would be greatly pleased with a list of what he 

 sent, if it could readily be obtained." 



It will be gathered from these extracts that Bartram was 

 extremely and quite naturally jealous of Young's success ; he 

 was shortly, through Collinson's intervention, appointed "King's 

 Botanist," with a yearly salary of £50. Young meanwhile 

 seems to have settled in London, for Oollinson says, under 

 date Sept. 19, 1765 :— " I have not seen Young for some time. 

 I conclude he is prosecuting his botanical studies." Bartram, 

 however, seems to have been still concerned about Young, for 

 we find Collinson writing to him on May 28th, 1766 :— " I wonder 

 thou shouldst trouble thyself about the Queen, as she has Young, 

 and everything will be shown him. It cannot be expected he will 

 favour auy one's interest but his own. He is now so new modelled, 

 and grown so fine and fashionable, with his hair curled and tied in 

 a black bag, that my people, who have seen him often, did not 



* Bartram's quaint spelling has been modernised throughout in the 

 MemoriaU. 



t Hill evidently accepted the charge, for he speaks of him (Decode of 

 Curious and Kleijmit In., and I'linU (L703), p. U) as "my pupil William 



