John Bartram
John Bartram , born the March 23rd 1699 beside Darby in Pennsylvania and dead the September 22nd 1777, is a American Botaniste . He is the father of William Bartram, famous a Ornithologue, and the grandfather of Thomas Say (1787-1834), famous a Entomologiste.
During years, he travels through the the United States in order to collect plants, Lake Ontario with the Florida, Atlantique coast to the river Ohio. Bartram collects very many Espèce S new and dispatches regularly its specimens in Europe.
It founds the first Botanical garden of the United States, which bears its name, the Bartram Botanical garden , with Kingessing, Pennsylvania. It is one of Co-foundateurs, with Benjamin Franklin, of the American Philosophical Society in 1742.
In 1765, George III raises Bartram with the rank of botanist of the king, a station which it preserves until his death.
Autodidact, John Bartram does not leave a scientific philosopher's stone behind him, but its voyages, often financed by its European correspondents, do of him one of the founders of American botany.
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