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at Colorado (Gillette and Baker) ; also at Santa Fe, New 

 Mexico (Cockerell), and on Nerium oleander at Lawrence, 

 Kansas (S. J. Hunter). It has also been found in green- 

 houses in England, and cited as a European greenhouse pest 

 by Signoret. It lives out of doors in Europe and America. 



3 1 . Lecanium sp. 



A var. of Olece was found on Cycas revoluta in the Harvard 

 botanical greenhouse at Cambridge, Mass. (King). 



I have departed from my usual custom by not giving the 

 bibliographical notes. As a matter of fact it would take up 

 too much space ; no less than 169 references would have to be 

 given. 



(To be Continued.) 



Letters from Thomas Say to John F. Melsheimer, 



1816 1825. IX. 



Philad* August 29? 1821. 

 MY DEAR SIR ! 



During our Western tour we had to encounter & surmount 

 many difficulties & privations. You have no doubt had some 

 accurate information relative to our adventures previously to 

 our arrival at Council bluff on the Missouri river, near which 

 position we cantoned for the Winter and passed that inclement 

 season with much comfort in our hutts, in friendly intercourse 

 with the neighboring indians. These were the nations of the 

 Ottos, Missouries, Omahas, Pawnees, etc. On the 6 l1 ? of June 

 we sat out for the Mountains under the most discouraging cir- 

 cumstances. Our paucity of numbers induced our neighbour- 

 ing indians to endeavour to dissuade us from what they consid- 

 ered a rash enterprize ; they assured us that the country was 

 covered with hostile indians, who would not fail to massacre 

 every individual of our small party, consisting of only twenty- 

 two persons. We however reached the mountains, by way of 

 the river Platte, in safety and found them capped with snow 

 in July. Some of the party ascended to the summit of the 

 highest peak mentioned by Pike. We then passed along the 

 base of the Mount? in a Southern direction until we met the 

 Arkinsaw river & proceeded down that stream to the vicinity 



