606 Additional Notes, 



Reaumur, Du Verney, Vicq-d'-Azyr, Cuvier, Brous- 

 s.ONET, and DicauEMARE, of France; Blumenbach, of 

 Germany; Spallanzani, of Italy; Camper, of Hollands 

 and many others in different parts of Europe, deserve to be 

 honourablv mentioned. 



Sarragin. p. 126. 



M. Sarragin, a French physician, who resided for some 

 time in Canada, well deserves to be added to the list of those 

 who have considerably extended our acquaintance with the 

 animal and vegetable productions of the higher parts of North- 

 America. His different memoirs were published between the 

 years 1706 and 1728. His anatomical histories of the Bea- 

 ver, Muskrat and Porcupine, are valuable. M. Sarragin 

 likewise distinguished himself by a publication on the Sugar 

 Maple (Acer SaccharinumJ of our country. That remark- 

 able family of plants denominated Saracenia was so named in 

 honour of this writer, by the illustrious Tournefort. 



Botany. 



Ray '5 Method, p. 128. 



There is a mistake in the above-mentioned page with re* 

 spect to the year in which Ray published his second and im- 

 proved method of arranging vegetables. It was in 1703. In 

 his first method he divided the vegetable kingdom into 25 

 classes, oi which Trees and Shrubs formed the two first, and 

 Herbs the remaining 23. This was published in 1682, 

 twenty-one years before his second method. — He is said to 

 have been one of the greatest naturalists and best men of the 

 age in which he lived. 



Hermann, p. 129. 



Paul Hermann was a native of Saxony, and died in 

 1695. It would be more correct to say that he arranged 

 plants according as their seeds are naked or enclosed in a pe- 

 ricarp. This learned man not only presented to the world 

 botauical writings of great value, but also engravings of 



