THE TALENTED MR. CATESBY.

The article profiles English naturalist and artist Mark Catesby. His book "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands" was the first natural history of the New World. It says that he sent some of the plants and seeds he had gathered in the U.S. to acquaintances at the Royal Society in London, England. It mentions that he befriended local Native Americans who became his guides and foragers.