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John Goldie. — This industrious botanist 

 was born near Maybole in Ayrshire, March 

 21, 1793 ; died at Ayr, Ontario, Canada, where 

 he had long resided, in June, 1886, in his 

 ninety-fourth year. Mr. Goldie was educated 

 as a gardener ; and most Scotch gardeners 

 in those days were botanists. From the Glas- 

 gow Botanic Garden, then in charge of Sir 

 William Hooker, he came to America for bo- 

 tanical exploration in the year 1817. The 

 interesting particulars of this expedition are 

 here given in an abstract from his " Descrip- 

 tion of some New and Rare Plants discovered 

 in Canada in the Year 1819," published in the 

 " Edinburgh Philosophical Journal," vol. vi, 

 April, 1822. " Having had for many years 

 a great desire to visit North America, chief- 

 ly with a view to examine and collect some 

 of its vegetable productions, I contrived in 

 1817 to obtain as much money as would just 

 pay my passage there, leaving when this was 

 done but a very small surplus." He sailed 

 from Leith to Halifax, went to Quebec, 

 whence he dispatched his collections of liv- 

 ing roots and dried plants in a vessel bound 

 for Greenock, " but never heard of them 

 afterward." At Montreal he found Pursh, 

 who advised him to explore the northwest 

 country, and promised to obtain for him per- 

 mission to accompany the traders going to 

 that region the following spring. " I trav- 

 eled on foot to Albany, thence proceeded by 

 water to New York. ... I explored the 

 eastern part of New Jersey, a country which, 

 though barren and little inhabited, yet pre- 

 sents many rarities to the botanist, and gave 

 me more gratification than any part of Amer- 

 ica that I have seen. At a place called Quak- 

 er's Bridge I gathered some most interesting 

 plants, and, having accumulated as large a 

 load as my back would carry, I took my jour- 

 ney to Philadelphia " — thence to New York, 

 whence a ship was about to sail to Scotland, 

 " and, having again committed my treasures 

 to the deep, I had again, as the first time, the 

 disappointment of never obtaining any in- 

 telligence whatever of them. My finances 

 being now extremely low and winter having 

 commenced, I hardly knew what to do ; but, 

 after some delay, went up to the Mohawk 

 River, where I found employment that sea- 

 son as schoolmaster " — thence in the spring 



