MOSES MARSHALL 79 



names the Marshallia. Give my best respects to 

 your uncle, Mr. Humphry Marshall, and believe 

 me vi^ith great esteem, sir, 



" Your humble servant, 



" Henry Muhlenberg." 



In a collection of the Marshall papers in the 

 possession of Gilbert Cope, there is the follow^ing 

 copy of the reply to this note in the handwriting 

 of Dr. Marshall: 



"West Bradford, April 13, 1792. 

 " Reverend Sir: I have just received yours of 

 the ninth instant, and am much pleased to hear of 

 the arrival of the Genera Plantarum. I am very 

 sensible of the honor done me, through your re- 

 quest, by Dr. Schreber, and think myself but too 

 undeserving. I shall be pleased in your calling 

 on your intended journey, and hope you will con- 

 sider my uncle's house as a welcome stage. I am, 

 with all due respect, 



" Your much obliged friend, 



" Moses Marshall." 



In the glimpses of Marshall seen in biog- 

 raphies of other doctors, he appears as an in- 

 defatigable traveller; for he tells Sir Joseph 

 Banks, in 1790: 



" In May last I set out upon a botanic tour by 

 way of Juniata to Pittsburg, thence southward up 

 the Monongahela upon Green Briar River, over 



