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JAMES MACBRIDE. 



James Macbride, physician and botanist, was bom 

 in Williamsburg County, S. C, in 1784; died in Char- 

 leston, S. C, in 1817. He was graduated at Yale in 

 1805, and then studied medicine. Settling in Pineville, 

 S. C, he practiced his profession for many years, but 

 later removed to Charleston where he died of the yel- 

 low fever. Dr. Macbride was an ardent devotee of 

 botany and contributed papers on that science to the 

 "Transactions of the Linnaean Society" and elsewhere. 

 His name was given by Dr. Stephen Elliott to the Mac- 

 bridea pvlchra, a genus found in St. John's, Berkeley, 

 S. C, of which but two species are known to exist. This 

 same authority dedicated the second volume of his 

 "Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia 

 (Charleston, 1824) to Dr. Macbride. 



In his "Medical and Philosophical Essays" Shecut 

 has the following to say with regard to him : "Dr. Mac- 

 bride, late of St. Stephen's, while living, pursued vdth 

 unceasing ardor the study of botany, particularly that 

 branch of it more immediately connected with medi- 

 cine. 



"Society will long deplore the loss of this amiable 

 physician and scientific botanist, who, in the midst of 

 his useful career, and in which he was deservedly ac- 

 quiring for himself an accession of self-earned honors 

 and applause, fell a victim to his professional zeal, 

 during the prevalence of the fever of 1817." 



Stephen Elliott in the preface to Volume H, "Sketch 

 of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia," speaks 

 of him as follows : 



"But principally to the late Dr. James Macbride a 

 tribute is due not only for the services which he him- 

 self actually rendered, but for the contributions which 



