Constantine Satmiet Rafinesque. 141 



17. Progress in American Botany. A letter from C. Rafinesque 



Schmaltz, Esq., of Palermo in Sicily, to Dr. Mitchill, dated 

 May 30, 1809. (In Medical Repository, 3d Hexade, Vol. I, 

 p. 297, New York, 1810.) 



1 8. Statistica Generale | di Sicilia | De Signori | D. D. Giuseppe 



Emmanuele Ortolani | avvocato e mineralogico | e Constantino 

 S. Rafinesque Schmaltz | negoziante e naturalista | in due 

 parti | Nella prima si descrive il Fisico della Sicilia, | nella 

 seconda il suo Morale. | Palermo | 1810 | Dalla reale stamp- 

 eria. | (8vo, pp. 49, with two maps.) 



Rafinesque remarks: 



&quot; The Moral Statistics of Sicily. ( // morale della Sicilia ). The 

 second and more important part of this useful and innocent work, 

 was fully approved by the Royal and Ecclesiastical censors ( revisori 

 regj e chiesiastici }, nevertheless its printing was prohibited by a 

 timorous Neapolitan cabinet-minister, because it discussed the con 

 dition of the government, the customs service, the army, the public 

 institutions &c of Sicily. The authors intend, however, to print it 

 as soon as we are in the enjoyment of the liberty of the press.&quot; 



In the &quot; Specchio&quot; for February, 1814, p. 80, it is said: 



&quot;It is proposed to send to the press the second part of the 

 Statistica de Sicilia. The Statistica Morale which includes the 

 geographical, constitutional, political, commercial, economic, historical, 

 literary, &c descriptions of Sicily, by Signori Ortolani and Rafinesque, 

 with a map of ancient Sicily and two plates or views, in one quarto 

 volume, at the price of 8 tari (12 tari for the two parts) to be 

 paid on delivery, if before printing there are 100 subscriptions. 



&quot; It would be futile to praise such a book, but it should suffice 

 to say that the last Parliament ordered an exact census of the Island. 



