80 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
buckthorn from England, the pawpaw, the persimmon, the tulip 
tree, the trumpet vine, and many more from farther west and 
south. 
Dr. Cutler died July 28, 1823, and lies buried beneath a 
marble slab, on which, without fulsomeness of eulogy, a long 
epitaph recounts his many virtues and accomplishments. The 
writer made in 1896 a pious pilgrimage to the scene of his 
labors, still a sleepy little village, as he left it. There, all 
within a stone’s throw, may still be seen the house where he 
lived, now enlarged and transformed, the church where he 
preached, remodeled since then, but still bare and uninviting, 
-as in his day, and the old cemetery where he rests. Such an 
occasion makes one realize, as we do far too seldom, how much 
our modern science owes to men like Dr. Cutler. He has not 
left a great scientific reputation, it is true, though doubtless he 
might have done so under less adverse circumstances. But he 
did what he could. He was a pioneer in a new country, not 
merely a pioneer in science, but a pioneer for truth and civili- 
zation in every form, trying always to push back the limits of 
the intellectual and physical wildernesses of his time, and to 
clear the ground, not alone for cities and material gain, but with: 
a view also to the upbuilding of sound learning and the enrich- 
ment of the world’s knowledge, which material prosperity makes 
possible and ought to make certain. 
