Mr. Bartram had the honour of being a member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, as well as of most of the learned and scientific societies of Europe.

Mr. Bartram ended a life of usefulness and celebrity, and quietly sunk into the arms of death, at his favourite retreat on the banks of the Schuylkill, July 22, 1823, at the advanced age of eightyfive years./

Besides "Travels through the Carolinas, Georgia, and the Floridas," Mr. Bartram published a "Table of American Ornithology," "Tracts and Observations on Natural History, and newly discovered Plants."

Besides numerous communications to the American Philosophical Society, which have been published in their "Transactions."

The manuscripts and correspondence of the father and son, if published, would form a curious and interesting volume; and we sincerely hope, for the cause of science, their labours will ere long be given to the world by some lover of science.

BARLOW, JOEL, LL. D. a distinguished poet, was born at Reading, Connecticut, about the year 1755. At an early age he was placed at Dartmouth college, and after a short residence there, he removed to Yale college, and graduated with distinguished reputation for scholarship

On this occasion he appeared before the public, for the first time, as a poet. On leaving college, he received the appointment of a chaplaincy to the American army, and continued with it during the whole period of the revolutionary war. It was in the camp that he planned and composed the "Vision of Columbus."

In 1781, he took the degree of M. A. and published the "Prospect of Peace," a poem.

In 1783, on the disbandonment of the army, he commenced the study of the law, and settled in Hartford.

In 1787, he published the "Vision of Columbus," and in the following year, embarked for Europe in the capacity of agent of the Scioto Land Com

pany.

At London he published the "Advice to the Privileged Orders:" and this was soon after followed by the "Conspiracy of Kings," a poem.

All of these publications procured him some profit and much notoriety.

Towards the end of the year 1792, the London Constitutional Society, of which he was a member, voted an address to the French National Convention, and Mr. Barlow and another member, were deputed to present it. He was received in France with great respect, and they conferred on him the rights of a French citizen.

During his stay in Paris, he translated "Volney's Ruins."

In the year 1795, he received the appointment of American consul at Algiers, with powers to negotiate a treaty, and to redeem all American captives. He hastened to Algiers, concluded a treaty, as well also with the Tripolitan powers; sent home the American prisoners, and afterwards returned to Paris, and resigned his consulship.

He then engaged in commercial pursuits, by which he acquired an independent fortune, and returned to America in 1805.

He selected Washington as his place of residence, and purchased a handsome seat, where he lived in an elegant and hospitable manner, associating on the most familiar terms with the president and other distinguished characters.

His leisure hours he devoted to literature and science, and in preparing for the press the "Co

lumbiad," which he afterwards published in a magnificent style.

In 1809, he received several literary honours, and among others the degree of Doctor of Laws.

About this period, he began to collect historical documents for a general history of the United States, a work he had long meditated, and was admirably well qualified to execute.

In the midst of these pursuits, he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to France. He arrived at Paris in the summer of 1811, and applied himself with great diligence in effecting the object of his mission, but was foiled in every attempt.

He was finally invited to a conference with the emperor at Wilna.

He immediately set off for this place, travelling night and day. Overcome by too much exertion and fatigue, he rapidly sunk into a state of extreme debility and torpor, and suddenly expired at Zarnawica, an obscure village in Poland, on the night of the 22d of December, 1812.

Mr. Barlow was in private life of an amiable disposition and domestic habits.

As an author, his writings will always command admiration, and rank high with the literature of this country.

The "Columbiad" was the work of half of his life-conceived and planned in the ardour of youth, and corrected, polished, and enlarged after his mind had been aroused and invigorated with various forms of nature, with books, and with

men.

BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH, M. D. a learned physician, was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1766.

At a very early period of his life he was very studious, and devoted much of his time to the acqui

sition of knowledge, particularly the branches of civil and natural history and botany.

After completing his collegiate studies, he commenced the study of medicine with the late Dr. Shippen, and while yet a pupil, he accompanied his uncle, Mr. Rittenhouse, the celebrated astronomer, and the other commissioners, in running the boundary line of Pennsylvania. It was during this excursion that he first turned his attention to the manners, history, medicines, pathology, and other interesting points of inquiry of the savage natives of this country.

His researches on these subjects, are among the most ingenious, if not the most useful of his labours./ In 1786, he embarked for England, with a view of prosecuting his medical studies at the university of Edinburgh.

At Edinburgh he was elected a member of the Royal Medical Society, and for his dissertation on the Hyosciamus niger, of Linnæus, he obtained the Harveian prize.

He afterwards studied at the celebrated university at Gottingen, and graduated.

After an absence of three years, he returned to Philadelphia, and commenced the practice of physic.

In 1790, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, and in 1802, he was chosen one of its vice-presidents, which office he held until the day of his death.

In 1789, he was unanimously elected professor of natural history and botany, in the college of Philadelphia.

In 1795, he succeeded Dr. Griffiths in the professorship of materia medica, in the university of Pennsylvania.

On the demise of Dr. Rush, he was elected to the chair which had been filled by him, which, together with that of natural history and botany, he held until the day of his death.

In 1815, he embarked for France, on account

of his health, and returned the November following, but was spared only long enough to receive the visits of his friends, and suddenly (expired on the morning of the 19th of December, 1815./

The genius of Dr. Barton was of a high order rapid, comprehensive, and brilliant.

As a professor, he was eloquent and instructive; and as a writer, he was ingenious, rich in facts, profound in research, and always abounding in useful information.

As a physician, he discovered a mind quick in discriminating diseases, and skilful in the application of appropriate remedies.

His publications on the antiquities, natural history, and botany of this country, are numerous and valuable.

BRAINERD, DAVID, an eminent preacher and missionary to the Indians, was born at Haddam, Connecticut, April 20, 1718. In 1739, he was admitted a member of Yale college. In 1742, after having pursued the study of divinity under the care of the Rev. Mr. Mills, he was licensed to preach. In November following he was appointed by the Society at New-York for Propagating Christian Knowledge, a missionary to the Indians.

On the 1st April, 1743, he arrived at Kaunamuk, an Indian village in Massachusetts, and commenced his labours at the age of twenty-five. After preaching to them some time, they removed to Stockbridge, under the care and instruction of the Rev. Mr. Sergeant, Mr. Brainerd then turned his attention towards the Delaware Indians. In 1744, he was ordained by a presbytery at Newark, NewJersey. Soon after, he entered on the field of his labours near the forks of the Delaware, in Pennsylvania. After a year of hardships and fruitless ex