374 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
Cubenses,’ named, and the new species described in 1861, 
from Charles Wright’s earlier collections in Cuba, and dis- 
tributed in sets by the collector. His researches upon later 
and more extensive collections by Mr. Wright remain in the 
form of notes and pencil sketches, in which many new species 
are indicated. The same may be said of an earlier still un- 
published 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 Bry- 
ology of Rodgers’s United States North Pacific Exploring 
Expedition, of which Charles Wright was botanist. Brief 
characters of the principal new species were, however, duly 
published in this as in other departments of the botany of 
that expedition. It is much to be regretted that the drawings 
which illustrate them have not yet been engraved and given 
to the scientific world. 
This has fortunately been done in the case of the South 
Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore Wilkes. 
For, although the volume containing the Mosses has not even 
yet been issued by government, Mr. Sullivant’s portion of it 
was published in a separate edition in the year 1859. It 
forms a sumptuous imperial folio, the letter-press having been 
made up into large pages, and printed on paper which matches 
the plates, twenty-six in number. 
One volume of the Pacific Railroad Reports, 7. e. the fourth, 
contains a paper by Mr. Sullivant, being his account of the 
Mosses collected in Whipple’s Exploration. It consists of 
only a dozen pages of letter-press, but is illustrated by ten 
admirable plates of new species. 
The “Icones Muscorum,” however, is Mr. Sullivant’s 
crowning work. It consists, as the title indicates, of “ Fig- 
ures and Descriptions of most of those Mosses peculiar to 
eastern North America which have not been heretofore fig- 
ured,” and forms an imperial octavo volume, with one hun- 
dred and twenty-nine copperplates, published in 1864. The 
letter-press and the plates (upon which last alone several 
