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appears justifiable is, that Newenham may have been au e.uthusiastic collector, known to 

 Hooker, but to very few others ; and that, having published nothing, the remembrance of 

 him has gradually passed away, until at this date, his identity is wholly lost. 



The last botanist to claim our attention before the close of the eighteenth century, is Dr. 

 Archibald Menzies, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, who was attached as naturalist to Van- 

 couver's expedition, and accompanied him to the north-west coast of America. Menzies 

 ajipears to have left no published works on the Canadian flora, but his extensive collec- 

 tions greatly extended our knowledge of the botany of the country. As a naturalist, he 

 was essentially the first Englishman to enter the field of botanical exploration in Canada, 

 after the conquest. His work has been commemorated by several botanists, in both genera 

 and species, of which the genus Menziesia of Smith, and the Abies Memiesii of Lindley, are 

 fitting examples. We thus have in the labors of this naturalist, occurring as they did in 

 the last decade of lYOO, a fitting conclusion of the history of Canadian botany in the 

 eighteenth century. 



I. — Thevet, Andre. 



(1.) Les Singularités de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique 

 et de plusieurs autres terres et isles découvertes de notre temps : Paris, 1558. 



Also, published in English as 



(2.) The New Fotmde Worlde, or Antarcticke, wherein is contained won- 

 derfull and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, 

 foules and serpents, trees, plants, mines of golde and silver; garnished with 

 many learned authorities, travailed and written in the French tong by that 

 excellent learned man, Master Andrewe Thevet; and, now newly translated 

 into English, wherein is reformed the errours of Ancient Cosmographers : 

 London, 1568. 



Pritzel's Thes. Bot. Lit., 469. Faribault's Cat. d'Ouvrages sur I'Hist. de 

 l'Amérique : Quebec, 1837. Larousse's Diet. Univers, du XIXe Siècle. 



II. — Champlain, Samuel de. — A native of France. G-overnor of Canada, and the 

 founder of Quebec. Born at Brouage, in 1561 ; died at Quebec, Dec. 25th, 1635. 

 (3.) Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain : Paris, 1615. 

 (4.) Voyages de la Nouvelle-France Occidentale, dite Canada: Paris, 1632. 

 (5.) Œuvres de Champlain : Quebec, 1870. 



Appleton's Cyc. of Biog. Tanguay's Diet. G-en., 1. 113. Cassell's Biog. Diet., 

 467. Bibaud's Panth. Can., 59. Bibaud's Diet. Hist., 78. 



IIL — Denis, Nicolas. — Governor of Acadia from 1632. 



(6.) Description Géographiqvie et Historique des Côtes de l'Amérique 

 Septentrionale, aA^ec l'Histoire Naturelle de ce Pays : Paris, 1672. 



Faribault's Cat. d'Ouvrages sur l'Hist. de l'Amérique. Larousse's Diet. 

 Univers, du XIXe Siècle. 



IV. — CORNUT, Jacques Philippe. — Born at Paris, Oct. 18th, 1600 ; died at the same 

 place, Aug. 23rd 1651. Commemorated by Linnœus in the genus Cormdia. 

 (7.) Canadensium Plantarum Historia, etc. : Paris, 1635. 

 Pritzel's Thes. Bot. Lit , 69. Appleton's Cyc. of Biog. 



Sec. iv, 1887. 8. 



