Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall, with notices of their botanical contemporaries is written by William Darlington and published by Lindsay & Blakiston.
Progress of Botany in North AmericaWe have for some time indulged the idea, that it would not be unacceptable to those who may take an interest in Botany to find in this work a brief preliminary sketch of the progress of Botanical Science on this continent, especially in that portion of it belonging, to the United States. We have also thought it might be gratifying to such as have not made themselves familiar with the subject, to see a list of the works which have been expressly devoted to the Botany of this region, together with a notice, however meagre, of the labours of those who have explored and illustrated the vegetable products of our country.
It would not be expedient, here neither do the materials in possession of the writer warrant the attempt to amplify the topic. He merely proposes to indicate, as far as known to him and as nearly in chronological order as practicable the titles and character of the several Catalogues, Floras, Scientific Journals, and other publications, illustrative of North American Plants, with occasional notices of their authors, and of other lovers of nature, whose zeal and industry have made us acquainted with the floral beauties which decorate our valleys, and hill sides, and mountain tops bespangling our prairies, imparting magnificence to our forests, and shedding a delicious fragrance over our land. It seemed to be germain to the object of the work, to afford a passing glance at what others have done, in the same field of science in which a Bartram and a Marshall were so early, so earnestly, and so successfully engaged...
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