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W. T. BRIGHAM ON THE RECENT 



When the eruption of lava was made known at Honolulu, many residents at once set out 

 for Hawaii, and among them a gentleman of distinguished attainments in botany, Dr. 

 William Hillebrand, who has given us so accurate and full an account of what he saw in 

 passing through the disturbed region that it seems worthy of a more permanent record 

 than would be its lot in the local newspaper in which it first appeared. He writes as 

 follows : — 



