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Government, he restored the Botanical garden and
brought it by degrees to be of the most connlo
in Europe. He read lectures on the principes Of bs
system, to pupils who resored to him from every
quarter; and thus succeeded in difusing widely te
same spirit Of research with which he was himself an
mated. He wrote essays various subjects con-
nected with botany, and encouraged his pupils to do
the same and at length, in 1851, he published his
" Philosophia Botanical" and two years afteryad,
the Species Pantarum. In the former, which NAV
be styled the grammar of botany, and which, in fact
is copious and elaborate commentary OH the " Fun.
damenta Botanical" published fifteen years before. he
gave an able defence and explanation of every thuO
relating to the science in its improved FORM And in
the latter which constitutes as il were, the Dictionary
or universal Repository of the discoveries hitherto
made in the science itself, he described upwards of
1900 species of plants introducing the same time
the use of trivial names and arranging the whole,
on the principles of his own system, in the way Of
classes, orders, and genera The two taken together
not only the last but the most complete and deser.
vedy celebrated of all the works which Lnnaus pub.
lshed on botany and as they were early sought after
and extensively read, they soon gave rise to a new
era in the science, and contributed, more than any
thing else, to establish perpetual monument to the
fame of their author. The pupils of Lnnpus. imb.
bling his spirit and furnished by his Instructions with
an easy method of turning their labors to good ac-
count, nad began to second his views, by dispensing
themselves into various countries for the purpose Of
discovery -AlONTIN, for instance, travelled through
part of Lapland, in l749. KELLER visited the
southern part of Italy in 1859. DIR FREDERICK Has
sELoUIsT made voyage about the same time to
Egypt and Palestine. LGFLING was sent at the ex-
pense of the king of Spain to South America. RO-
LANDER visited Surinam. Kahn, a Swedish divine
and member of the Academy of Science at Stock
holm, spent three years in North America, where
Catesby, Golden, and Clayton, had been lately pursu
ing the same object and made no uncomfortable add-
ton to their discoveries. Martin traversed Green
land and part Of the Russian Empire. Osbeck and
loren went to the East Indies. But even to name
all those botansts who followed Inneus would ex-
coed our limits, for they numerous, and of both
sexes. Mrs lhbertson and Priscilla Wakefield, with
many other ladies of ardent and inquring minds give
evidence that the fair not insensible to the sweet
reward which flows from perseverance in this de-
lightfu study
Hitherto sketches relate chiefly to the progress
of the science in the Eastern world, and we have by
no MEAS left ourselves sufficient space time to do
Justice to the subject connected with our coun
try "a country which furnishes finer field for the
labors of the devoted botanst than any other the
Gobe field which, nevertheless has been traversed
by native botanists, with as much ardor and much
devotion to science, as under similar circumstances
the proudest page of European history can furnish
bare catalogue of the names of American Botanlsts,
in point of responsibility, usefulness and scientific
search, is splendid one. Taking them alphabetically
It comprises Bartram, the Bartons, Baldwin, Beck,
Bigelow, Billy, Brcknell, Cleaver Collins, Cutler,
Dalman, Denke, Eddy, Elliott, Enslin, Mrs Gambod,
TNna1, H..