... to the volume of Travels by his son, William Bartram. Yet it is difficult to mention the son without reference to the father, whom Linnaeus called the greatest self-taught botanist in the world. John Bartram , born in 1699, when almost seventy years old explored the St. John's River in Florida, accompanied by William, who in turn made a second journey to the region in 1773, at the request of Dr. Fothergil...