__ herbarium, comprising the plants of Ruiz and Payon, of a fee 
Q14  Miscellantes. 
Observations at Hudson, Ohio, were made under direction of Prof. 
Loomis, at my request. The following results were published by him 
in the Ohio Observer, of May. 5, 1842. ‘On the morning of the 19th — 
I rose to observe, and it was pe i 
20th, a watch of eight students was organized, but this time also the 5 
sky was overcast. For the morning of the 21st no regular watch — 
was kept, but a company of students, who were riding all night in an 
open waggon, made such observation as they were able. About one 
o’clock, A. M. they began to observ: 
when so few were seen, that they did 
twenty per hour. 
extraordinary.” 
From the foregoing observations, it may be 
no unusual exhibition of shooting stars at this pla 
on the morning of April 21, 1842. It will be remé 
ing of the twentieth was the anniversary of the me c shower oF 
April, 1803; but whether any uncommon display of sooting stars was 
visible on that morning, we = no opportunity to determ 
New Haven, Conn., May 17, 
ape considered nr fi 
This number certainly. 
cluded = there < % 
7. Botanical Necrology, §c.—Besides the opel loss susté 
in the death of the great De Canpo.iz, we haye tomourn th 
of several distinguished botanists during the past 5 year, vi 
Mr. Lampert, senior Vice President of the Linn 
of a magnificent work on the Pines, and proprie etor of 
_ of Pursh, who published his Flora under Mr. Lambert's liberal pa 
| iat 
‘ety, a since the year 1836, Professor of 
x celebrated botanist, and estimable 
