The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-02-14

ment of natural science, however honorable to them
selves and useful to the world, limits will not per-
init us to detail
Following after These the name of WILLIAM SHEER
RARD, an Englishman and native Of Leicestershire,
ought not to be passed by for though he did not live
TO complete the only work of importance which he
undertook, Z" A Continuation of Bauhin's Pnax,''
vet no of that age exerted himself so much
without regard to expense, in collecting plants of ev-
cry description and well did he employ his time
that he became at length the possessor of Herbar-
um containing no less than 10000 species. which he
left his death, together with valuable collection
of drawings, to the University of Oxford.
While the science thus advancing, HENRY
BERNARD RUPP, native of Giessen and student at
Jena who had traversed many parts of Germany with
incredible zeal, lodging often in the meanest cottages
and subsistng the most homey fare wrote the
" Flora Jenensls in which he gave account of
his discoveries, and constituted several new genera.
The great BGRHAAvE Professor at Leyden alike
celebrated throughout Europe as a Physician and
naturalist besides proposing system of arrange
ment contributed to throw some light exotic bota
ny, by describing, with his usual ability, several rare
plants which were cultivated under his direction in
the University garden. CLAUS CELSIUS, Professor of
Divinity at Upsa of great erudition, and the
future patron of the farfamed LINNEus, who also
published catalogue of the Flora round Upsa, was
engaged in preparing the " Hierobotanicon,' work
illustrative of the plants mentioned in Scripture, which
is hitherto unrivaled by any other on the subject.
The two SCHEUcHzERs of Zeurich also acquired
great fame JOHN JAMES, by his journeys through the
Alps, which he crossed no less than nine times in va
rious directions, ascending to their highest peaks !;
John the younger by his very elaborate and accurate
discrimination and descriptions of the grasses SCI
BAsrIAN VALIANT, too, pupil of Tournefort and
the most expert and indefatgabe boanist of his time
did great service to his ayorte science, by writing on
the plants growing naturally round Paris, and detcc-
ting the proper of the Pollen by his nice obser-
vations and experiments on the flowers of the peto-
Ty, but still more by improving the labors of his
MASTER for he both corrected various faults in his
method and by establishing several new genera sue
ceeded IN bringing many of the smaller plants which
Tournefort had overlooked, into some form of ar
rangement. consumption put period to his life in
1922. and deprived the world of his promising abili-
ties. What Valiant did not live to accomplish, was,
however, accomplished afterwards by the skill and
perseverance of Dilanius and Miche. The former,
Hcsslan, who was some time professor of botany in
his native city, Giessen, and atterly at Oxford where
he died in 1747 devoted his attention in particular
to the study and arrangement of the mosses
His merits botanist great in other respects
but in this branch of the science more especially he
succeeded so well, that his history of the MOSES is
still considered as of the best, and very competent
Judge has termed his descriptions model of perspi-
Guilty." The latter by birth Florentne, and placed
at first in the humble station of gardener, was pos
sessed of a discriminating eye and was fortunate
enough to make several important discoveries. He
was particularly the first who detected the true
flowers of mosseS and the fruit of the uShroon,