We  observe,  too,  that  he  still  looked  wistfully  to  the  unexplored
West.  As  a  member  of  the  Philosophical  Society,  he  took  the  lead
in  1792  in  raising  a  thousand  guineas  to  send  Andrew  Michaud  to
grope  his  way  across  the  continent,  and  find  out  all  he  could  of  the
great  plains  and  rivers,  the  Indians  and  the  animals,  the  bones  of
the  mammoth,  and  whatever  else  a  Philosophical  Society  and  an
American  people  might  care  to  know.  Andrew  Michaud  did  not
find  the  Pacific  Ocean ;  and  the  task  remained  undone  till  Jefferson,
ten  years  later,  found  the  predestined  man  in  Meriwether  Lewis^  %
■on  of  one  of  his  Albemarle  neighbors.
CHAPTEB  LIL

▲BBIVAL  OF  DB.  PBIESTLST  DT  THB  UNITED  flTATSt.
Tms  briDgs  its  revenges.  I  read^  in  a  recent  number  of  the
don  AthensBum,  a  quiet  advertisement  informing  the  public  that  ^  it
is  proposed  to  honor  the  memory  of  Dr.  Priestley,  and  to  comniem*
orate  his  discoveries,  and  his  services  to  the  scientific  world,  by  the
erection  of  a  statue  in  Birmingham,  where  be  lived  so  many  years.''

The  advertisement  goes  on  to  say,  that,  ^  no  other  public  meiqo-
rial  of  Dr.  Priestley  exists,  it  is  believed  that  a  large  number  of  per*
spns  interested  in  sciences  will  be  glad  to  contribute  somethii^  fto
perpetuate  the  memory  ''of  th/e  father  of  PneuxipAJiac  Chemistry,  ihe
discoverer  of  oxygen,  and  one  of  the  most  iUuatri(oi;is  n^  qf  9ic^^f^
whom  the  last  century  produced."  Then  follows  a  list  of  sixty-fiix
subscriptions,  varying  in  amount  from  fifty  pounds  to  ten  shillings.
Among  the  names  we  recognize  those  of  Professor  Huxley,  Mr.
Martineau,  Dr.  Kussell,  Sir  Kowland  Hill,  and  several  other  memben
of  the  Royal  Society.
