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Copyright 1978 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-90733 ISBN 0-87023-020-4 Printed in the United States of America Designed by Mary Mendell Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data appear on the last printed page of the book
Illustrations courtesy of The Bancroft Library. Frontispiece: "The Globe Fish. Orbis Lvis Variegatus" (volume 2, plate 28) from Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina (London, 1771) in the collection of The Minneapolis Athenaeum, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401. Photograph by Tom Didiaso.
Part of chapter 5 originally appeared in "The Iconography of Mark Catesby," Eighteenth-Century Studies 4:2 (Winter 1971), 169-83. Copyright 1971 by The Regents of the University of California. Reprinted from Eighteenth-Century Studies by permission of The Regents.
Page vii
For Bonnie
Page ix
Contents
Introduction
xiii
I The Nature Reporter in the Presence of Nature and Culture
1
II The Nature Reporter in Colonial American Culture
13
III Jonathan Carver, a Connecticut Yankee
47
IV John Bartram, a Pennsylvania Farmer
89
V Mark Catesby, a Georgian Reporter
123
Illustrations
161
Epilogue
187
A Personal Narrative
197
Abbreviations
200
Notes
201
Index
225
Page xi
Illustrations
1. Bald Eagle
163
2. Tumble-Turds and Martagon Canadense
164
3. Blue Jay and Bay-leaved Smilax
165
4. Cat-Bird and Alni folia Americana serrata
166
5. Ground Squirrel and Mastic Tree
167
6. Blue Bird and Smilax non spinosa
168
7. Red Bird, Hiccory Tree and Pignut
169
8. Flamingo and Keratophyton
170
9. Bison and Acacia
171
10. Sole
172
11. Globe Fish, Cornus and An Phaseolus
173
12. Corn Snake and Viscum Caryophylloides
174
13. Green Snake and Cassena vera
175
14. Black Snake and Frutex Rubo similis
176
15. Rattle-Snake
177
16. Black Squirrel and Yellow Lady's Slipper
178
17. Carolina Fieldfare and Virginia Snake-Root
179
18. Headpiece with cartouche from Carolina
180
19. Land Crab and Tapia trifolia
181
20. Umbrella Tree
182
21. Philadelphus, Smilax and Four Eye'd Night Butterfly
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