276 Dr, Hooker on American Botany. 
Georgia, w which he commenced in 1816. This is arranged 
according to the Linnzan system, having specific characters 
both in Latin and in English, and very copious notes and de- 
scriptions. A work thus conducted cannot fail to be of great 
importance to the student of ‘American hoiipy ; the more so, 
tion, depending little upon the assistance of others, and ipa 
capital where science has not been so much cultivated as in 
the northern Snes In a letter now before us, the author 
says, “‘ no one in Europe can, probably, appreciate correctly 
the difficulty. of tl the task in which I have engaged. The want 
of books, the want of opportunities for examining living col- 
lections or good herbaria, the want of coadjutors, have all 
served to render my task arduous, and to multiply its imper- 
fe .? Nevertheless, there are many new species, de- 
scribed with great care and fidelity, and the grasses, which 
are accompanied with some neat ate have particularly at- 
tracted the author’s attention here are several beautiful 
novel species, and some newly established genera. We have 
received of this work to the 6th No. of the 2d Sect whiclt 
includes so far as the class Monecia; and we are informed 
Mr. Eltiott, that another number will ouaplete the Sketch. 
his ni as ~~ ay cannot thus take in the Crypto- 
gamia $ 3 and we cons r. Elliott’s talent for» minute de- 
scription admirably Soleulated for such plants as that class 
embraces. No man seems to be more strongly impressed — 
with the value of the study of natural histery than Mr. Elliott. 
. ant has been, for many years,’’ says he, “ the occupation of 
y leisure moments; it is a merited tribute to say, that it 
bis lightened for me many a heavy; and smoothed many a 
rugged hour, that beguiled by its charms, 1 have found no 
road rough or difficult, no journey tedious, no couniry deso- 
late or barren—in solitude never solitary, in a desert never — 
without edge I have found it a relief from the lan-~ 
guor ess, the pteteane of business, and from the un- 
avails: galomniiies of life* -. 
We come now to the agreeable eiaghwel of mentioning 
a wept important work, both on account of the extended na- 
pests of the pbilication, and of the manner in which it has been 
Bilioti’s addrees tc the Lite Philosophical Society of 
oe Rtn te oy published there in 1914. 
3 We allude to the “ Genera of North American 
