CADWALADER COLDEN 4 1 



Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 



1743- 



Linnaeus, in recognition of his services, called 

 a new genus of plants Coldenia, though a prettier 

 version had it that he named it after the doctor's 

 daughter, Jane. " Not only," says Dr. Garden, 

 writing to Ellis, in 1755,° " is the doctor himself 

 a great botanist, but his lovely daughter is greatly 

 master of the Linnaean method and cultivates it 

 with great assiduity." Ellis, in a letter to Lin- 

 naeus (1758),' suggests that as Miss Golden has 

 drawn and described 400 plants in his (Lin- 

 naeus') method, he should call the Helleborus 

 trif alius, Goldenella, and: "You have plainly 

 shewed me that the Fibraurea of Miss Golden is 

 already described. I shall let her know what 

 civil things you say of her. Her Ghristian name 

 is Jane." 



Golden's largest work was his History of the 

 Five Indian Nations of Canada, 1727. The 

 Cause of Gravitation, once an all-absorbing sub- 

 ject with him, resulted in his writing on it, and 

 this paper, much enlarged, was re-published in 

 ly^i a.s The Principles of Action in Matter. He 

 wrote also an Essay on the Cause and Remedy 

 of the Yellow Fever, so fatal at New York in 

 1743 and A Treatise on Electricity. His f riend- 



' Correspondence of Linnaeus, vol. ii, p. 343. 

 ° Correspondence of Linnaeus, vol. i, pp. 95, 98. 



