ke Dr. Hooker on American Botany. 
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one of the yards, and. he was senseless when carried on shore ; 
he did not recover till some hours after, when he found hires 
self extended before: a fire, with more than fifty persons stand- 
ing around him. s first: idea. when his recollection re- 
turned, was to ‘igh for his collections. He was informed 
that the packages which contained his own effects had been 
lying on deck, whence they were washed by the violence of 
the waves; but that those chests which had been lodged in 
the hold had been taken out safely. This intelligence con- 
soled him. - Notwithstanding the wretched state of his health, 
Michaux was compelled to remain six weeks at Egmond, and 
to work day and night, His plants having got wetted by the 
salt water, he was obliged to immerse them all in fresh water, 
and one after another, to dry them between new papers.” 
Oo his return to his native country, Michaux employed 
himself in Espa his History of Oaks, a work which re- 
flects the bighesi credit upon its author ; not only because of 
the number of new bic which are there made known to 
ns, but also on account of the important uses to which the 
timber of the different kinds may be applied. An seReits 
ment to explore other countries* prevented him from  pub- 
lishing himself any of his various new and important discov- 
eries, His History of the Oaks was indeed printed, bat the 
Hote were not all ready for the press before his departure 
from Europe. It wasedited in 1801. But that work which 
more immediately concerns our present subject, and which 
was compiled from the materials that he collected during his 
travels in North America, is his Flora Borealis Americana, 
sistens Characteres Plantarum quas in America Septentrionalt 
collegit et detextt Andreas Michaux. This appeared | in 1803, 
(che very year of Michaux’s death,) in two volumes octavo, 
with fifty-one neat plates in outlines. The anonymous edi- 
tor, and indeed he may just!y be considered the author, was 
the eminent Claude Louis Richard, late professor of botany 
at the School of Medicine in Paris, and unquestionably one 
* He embarked in the ill-conducted expedition under Captain Bandin; 
but like many others of the neo when the vessel arrived at the Ts Isle 
was seize 
pecs oa of which he died in 
