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tice and botanizing. He kept up an ac- tive correspondence also with Linnaeus and with John Ellis the botanist who named the beautiful Cape Jessamine "Gardenia" in his honor.

Thacher, who loves to disguise weak- nesses in wordy dressing, says Garden was "particularly fond of refined female society and to it devoted a considerable portion of his time, but enough was re- served for mental improvement," About 1772 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London and eventually vice- president. Eager to extend his knowl- edge. Garden in 1755 accompanied James Glen, governor of South Carolina, when he penetrated into the Indian country and formed a treaty with the Cherokees and discovered an earth equal to that used for Worcester china, but history does not record what came of the discovery. He introduced into medical use the Spigelia marilandica or pink, as a ver- mifuge, and anyone who would like to know more of Garden's travels and pretty reverent letters about nature should get the Linnaean Correspondence edited by Sir J. E. Smith. A somewhat pathetic interest is attached to his little grand- daughter named Gardenia. Her father, Garden's only son, joined Lee's Legion against the British and was never for- given nor the little girl with the flower name received into the house.

Tuberculosis, hitherto successfully fought, began to tell on Garden's health and, although it was hoped that "revisit- ing the haunts of his youth and the pleas- ing recollections of juvenile scenes would have salutary influence in arresting the disease, " nothing of the kind occurred. As far as can be seen the good time every learned man tried to give him during bis progress homewards must have consider- ably exhausted his strength. It is told that he stayed with his wife and two daughters in Cecil Street, off the Strand, London, and there, patiently realizing there was nothing to be done, he put on paper all he could of his Carolina work, enjoyed the men who flocked to turn, and got ready for the last long journey. That

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he was ready all biographers show, and he died peacefully in London, 1792.

D. W.

Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry

Marshall; W. Darlington, 1S49.

Am. Med. Biog. Thacher.

Memoir of Dr. W. C. Wells, 1818.

Garlick, Theodatus (1805-1884).

On March 5, 1805, Theodatus Garlick was born in Middlebury, Addison County. His father, though a poor farmer, was respectably connected, and probably furnished his son with as good an elementary education as his situation afforded. In July, 1816, when only eleven years old, in company with an elder brother, Abner, he walked from his home in Vermont to Elk Creek (now Girard), Pennsylvania, where his oldest brother, Rodolphus, had settled some six years before and was occupied as a blacksmith. The boy remained with his brother Ro- dolphus for some two years and learned the trade of a blacksmith, but about 1S18 travelled on to Cleveland and learned stone cutting from Abner who had come west with him and had settled in that city. The next few years were spent in Cleve- land, on Black River or in Newbury, Geauga County, sometimes with one brother, sometimes with the other, but always engaged in either blacksmithing or the lettering of tombstones. Indeed, from the period when he left home in 1816 the doctor assures us that he never re- ceived any pecuniary aid from his father, but supported himself by his own work. In 1830 another brother, Anson, rented a farm in Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, and joining this one, Theodatus resolved to study medicine and prepared himself for the work by collecting a large number of stones suitable for tombstones, and manufactured for himself the tools necessary to enable him to cut them properly. Having secured a suitable shop for his work, he then enrolled him- self as a student of medicine with Dr. Ezra W. Gleason of Brookfield, and, after the removal of Dr. Gleason, with Dr. Klijah I lower, a reputable physician of the same town. His system of labor was