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are vividly sketched. Owing to various delays the edition was 

 not issued till 1846. 



Nuttall returned only once to America. As lie could not be 

 absent more than three months in any one year, he took the last 

 three months of 1847 and the first three of 1848 not a very de- 

 sirable season for a botanist's outing. Nevertheless, he managed 

 to do some congenial work. He studied at the Philadelphia Acad- 

 emy the plants brought by Dr. William Gamble from the Rocky 

 Mountains and Upper California, and prepared a paper on them 

 which was published in the journal of the Academy. 



His death occurred on September 10, 1859. In his eagerness to 

 open a case of plants received shortly before from Mr. Booth he 

 overstrained himself, and from that time steadily declined until 

 he died. Through his love of Nature, joined with untiring indus- 

 try and great firmness of purpose, he had raised himself from 

 the condition of an unknown artisan to the foremost rank of 

 American men of science. No student begins upon the study of 

 systematic botany without being struck by the frequency with 

 which his name is met. His friends and colleagues. Profs. Torrey 

 and Gray, have testified to their appreciation by attaching his 

 name to a beautiful genus of the RosacecB. Elias Durand said of 

 him immediately after his death : " No other explorer of the bot- 

 any of North America has personally made more discoveries; no 

 writer on American plants, except perhaps Prof. Asa Gray, has 

 described more new genera and species." 



Among the Kayans of Borneo, according to Mr. C. Hose, when a child is born, 

 the father and mother sink their own identity and adopt the name of their off- 

 spring. Supposing a man named Jau becomes the parent of a son to whom he 

 gives the name of Lahing, the former would no longer be called Jau, but Taman 

 Lahing, father of Lahing. If his child were to die, he would be called Ozong 

 Lahing, or Ozong Jau ; if his wife dies, he adds the prefix Aban (widower) to his 

 name ; if a brother or sister, Boi, and he is called Boi Lahing. Should he attain 

 the position of being a grandfather, he becomes Laki, adding thereto the name of 

 his grandchild ; so if the latter is given the name of Ngipa, the grandfather is no 

 longer called Taman Lahing, or by any other name but Laki Ngipa. A widow is 

 called Ballo. 



In considering temperature as a factor in the distribution of marine animals, 

 Dr. Otto Maas, of Munich, said, in tlie British Association, that the great ocean 

 currents were primary elements in limiting the distribution of free-swimming 

 forms, very few species being found both north and south of them. The influence 

 which had been ascribed to pressure might often be more correctly attributed to 

 change of temperature, as in the case of deep-sea animals which died on being 

 brought to the surface in the Atlantic but not in the Mediterranean. In conclu- 

 sion, attention was called to the corals and the geryonid jellyfish as illustrative of 

 the principles laid down, both having a similar distribution, though the former 

 are fixed, the latter free swimming. 



