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the interest of James Logan and Joseph Breintnall, the latter 

 a member of Franklin's " Junto," the aid of the English botanist 

 and Quaker, Peter Collinson, was enlisted and an exchange of 

 plants began between them. Dr. Middleton states that " Bar- 

 tram was responsible for the introduction into England of the 

 bush honeysuckle, fiery lilies, mountain laurel, dog-tooth violet, 

 wild asters, gentian, hemlock, red and white cedar and sugar 

 maple." His English friends, on the other hand, sent him, 

 " lilacs, tulips, narcissus, roses, lilies, crocuses, gladioli, iris, 

 snapdragons, cyclamens, poppies, and carnations, in addition to 

 many species of fruit and shade trees." ^^ He traveled exten- 

 sively through the colonies and in 1751 published his Observa- 

 tions on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, 

 Animals, and other matters worthy of notice, made by Mr. John 

 Bartram in his travels from Pennsylvania to Onondago, Oswego, 

 and Lake Ontario, in Canada}^ In the same year he added a 

 preface, notes, and an appendix to Dr. Thomas Short's Medi- 

 cina Britannica.^^ In 1765 he was appointed " Botanist to the 

 King " of England, and a year later he published his Description 

 of East Florida, with a journal kept by John Bartram of Phila- 

 delphia, Botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas upon a journey 

 from St. Augustine up the River St. John's, as far as the Lakes.^° 

 His name in science is memorialized by two types of Bartramia, 

 one — named by Gronovius — " a tropical plant with burr-like 

 fruits, section of the genus triumfetta (tiliaceau) ; " the other — 

 named by Hedwig — " a genus of acro-carpous mosses." ^^ 



It is, however, not with John Bartram' s scientific accomplish- 

 ments that we are concerned, but with his personality and his 

 probable influence on his son William. The attainments of the 

 elder Bartram threw him in contact with people who, directly 



^' Ibid., p. 199. 



^* Printed by J. Whiston and B. White, Fleet Street, London. " To which is 

 annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm." 

 (See Sabin, Diet, of Books Relating to America.^ 



^" Published by B. Franklin and D. Hall. Philadelphia. 



^^ London. " The third edition, much . enlarged and improved. 1769 " 

 (Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia, oj American Literature, I, 234). 



^' R. Kingston Fox, op. cit. 



