BIOGEAPHICAL SKETCH. 



and collection is, " Musci Boreali Araericani quorum spe- 

 cimina exsiccati ediderunt W. S. SuUivant et L. Lesque- 

 reux; 1856." Naturally enough the edition was imme- 

 diately taken up. 



In 1865 it was followed by a new one, or, rather, a 

 new work, of between five and six hundred numbers, 

 many of them Californian species, the first-fruits of Dr. 

 Bolander's researches in that country. The sets of this 

 unequalled collection were disposed of with the same 

 unequalled liberality, and with the sole view of advan- 

 cing the knowledge of his fiivorite science. This second 

 edition being exhausted, he recently and in the same 

 spirit aided his friend Mr. Austin, both in the study and 

 in the publication of his extensive " Musci Appalachi- 

 ani." 



To complete here the account of Mr. Sullivant's bryo- 

 logical labors illustrated by " exsiccati," we may mention 

 his " Musci Cubenses," named, and the new species de- 

 scribed in 1861, from Charles Wright's earlier collections 

 in Cuba, and distributed in sets by the collector. His 

 researches upon later and more extensive collections by 

 Mr. Wright lie in the form of notes and pencil sketches, 

 in which many new species are indicated. The same 

 may be said of an earlier still unpublished collection, 

 made by Fendler in Venezuela. Another collection, of 

 great extent and interest, which was long ago elaborately 

 prepared for publication, and illustrated by very many 

 exquisite drawings, rests in his portfolios, through delays 

 over which Mr. Sullivant had no control; namely, the 

 Bryology of Eodgers's U. S. North Pacific Exploring 

 Expedition, of which Charles Wright was botanist. 

 Brief characters of the principal new species were, how- 

 ever, duly published in this as in other departments of 

 the botany of that expedition. It is much to be re- 

 gretted that the drawings which illustrate them have not 

 yet been engraved and given to the scientific world. 



