Excerpt from Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall: With Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries In selecting from among the several Biographical Notices of john bartram, hitherto published, the preference has been given to one written by his son wil liam, which appeared in the first volume of Prof. Barton's Medical and Physical Journal, in the year 1804. It is brief, and lacking in details; yet probably in the main more reliable than the others. But even that is obscure, and somewhat inaccurate, in the account it gives of the elder portion of the family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.