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the study of natural history and particularly that of 

 botany." 



His many like-minded friends in Europe and the mother 

 country profited as the result of his investigations; for he 

 made sundry communications to them on the observations 

 which he from time to time made. Linnaeus, the greatest 

 botanist of his age, was one of these friends, and he and 

 Garden corresponded with each other in Latin. To do 

 honor to his friend Garden, Linnaeus gave the name of 

 Gardenia toja genus of most beautiful flowering shrubs. 



To extend his knowledge in natural history, Dr. Garden 

 accompanied Governor James Glen in 1752, when he pen- 

 etrated into the Indian country and made the treaty with 

 the Cherokees. In 1764 he gave to the public an account 

 of the virtues of pink root {Spigelia Marilandica) and at 

 the same time a botanical description of the plant. About 

 the year 1772 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, 

 and after his return to Europe in 1783 he was appointed 

 one of its council and afterwards one of its vice presidents. 

 His death occurred in the year 1791. 



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Alexander Garden— "The Halesia, first described by Dr. 

 Garden, as appears by the letter of J. 'Ellis, Esq., F. R. S., 

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' 'An Account of the Male and Female Cochineal Insects 

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' 'An Account of an Amphibious Bipes (the Mud Iguana 

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"An Account of Two New Tortoises, in a letter to 

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' 'An Account of the Gymnatus Electricus, in a letter to 



