ee aad ar OE Re er Oe cated, 5) at) re SSR ee ore 
Dr. Hooker on American a 269 
of the most profound botanists that Eun 
The whole is in Latin, and, as may be s e 
tional number of new species is extremely large; inde 
Ee eoeacrye as the first Flora of so entensive: a country. as 
th America, it panier the highest credit on the: ancestry 
out eomence of Michau 
before the nebligntion of this work, anot ther natur- 
ong b 
alist, Frederick Pursh, a Pole*, we believe, by birth, but edu- 
cated in Dresden, instigated by the richness of the vegetation, 
and the hope of making numerous discoveries, resolved to 
visit North America, and carried his plan into execution in 
1799, when he embarked for Baltimore, in Maryland, with 
the resolution. not to return to Europe till he had examined 
= This. edictirnted B otanist, we calor: has been commonly, though 
erroneously, considered a native a. Pelee While Professor Silliman 
was in anada, in the autumn of 1 he had a personal interview with 
a pe 
Mr. Pursh, in the course of which the fatter stated expressly, that he was 
btn « Indeed.” ie 
ie born mes educated in Siberia, near T 
r Silliman, “he possessed a physiognomy and porn 
from that of Raceteine, and highly characteristic of his nati 
‘Mr, Pursh expressed himself very warmly on the subject of the Doel 
men, in the use of their 
aid which he received in aa from scientific 
libraries and their herbariums, a the tender of their private advice 
and information; he m tac vitineaetin his obligations to Sir JoserH 
Banks, god “sprint com He informed me, that he conteeapiahes 
another tour to parope for for the e purpose of publishing his Flora of Canada, 
upoiewbich he had bee ih tiecth ae veral years occupied, and expected to 
was the aeons mind, and his complete devotion to. the ruling 
Pasion, that he thaighy little of marching day after “a hes with a 
pack weighing: sixty pounds on his shoulders, ee ns ts and Perri 
and over rocks and mountains, hs scr discover a new 
great sont ote of such he assured me he had found, and that he i babeinaan 
to publish the drawings and descriptions of them in his Canadian Flora.” 
(See * Remarks’ made on a Tour between Hartford and Quebec,” p. 
351. 
Mr. Pursh died, after a very lingering illness, at Montreal, July 11th, 
= Itis e = hoped that i apaiviry has — or will be, instituted con- 
i C 
the f this His Flora of Canada, 
though pecbulsly not S acwatty Gants tie publications, nee. almost 
undoubted! ae: F 
rd many valuable items. 
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