Bartram

/ˈbɑːrtræm/ proper noun

Definition

A surname, most famously associated with William Bartram, an 18th-century naturalist and botanist who explored the American Southeast.

Etymology

English surname, possibly derived from 'Bartholomew' combined with other root elements, or from a place name in England.

Kelly Says

William Bartram's travel journal through the American frontier in the 1770s reads like science fiction—he described ecosystems and species as if discovering alien worlds, capturing nature at a moment before industrialization.

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