Logan. 277 
Dr. Fothergill's inceflant exertions in 
J the fame defigns, being at a later period, 
j are too well known to be repeated here. 
Governor Colden fent to Linnjeus up- 
wards of 200 fpecies, the account of which 
was printed in the Upfal ABs for 1743 and 
and LiNN^us, in his Flora Zey-* 
lankdy gave to a plant of the Tetrandrous 
clafs, the name of his correfpondent. 
LOGAN. 
Several ingenious gentlemen In America 
purfued botanical inveftigations with great 
fuccefs about this period, "james Logan, 
Efq; afterwards Prefident of the Council, 
and Chief Jiiftice of Penfyhama^ inftituted 
a fet of Experiments on the Maiz, relating 
to the fexes of plants. They were firft 
communicated in a letter to PtY^r Colli n- 
soN, F.R.S. in 1735 ; and were printed in 
the Philofophical 'TranfaBioiis^ Vol. xxxvi. 
p. 192. They were afterwards enlarged, 
and pubhfhed in Latiuy at Leyden^ in 1739, 
under the title of Experiment a et Melete-^ 
mat a de Plant arum Gencratione \' and repub- 
lifhed with an EngUjl: tranflation, if I mif» 
T 3 take 
