i 1 2 Jdditional Notes, 



9. Oil iht Bignonia Catalpa, by Robert Holmes, of 



Virginia. 



10. On the Pohjgala Senega, by Thomas Massie, of 



Virginia. 



11. On the Arbutus Uva Arsi, and Pyrola Umhellata and 

 Maculata, by John S. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania. 



] 2. On the Comus Florida, and Sericea, and the Cinchona 

 Officinalis, by John M.Walker, of Virginia. 

 Some of these Academic publications have great merit. 

 They afford conclusive evidence, that this department of Na- 

 tural History is more studied in the middle and southern than 

 in the eastern states. It will be observed, that the authors of 

 all the dissertations above-mentioned, reside to the south of 

 New- York, excepting the student from Ireland. 



DlLLENIUS. p. 141. 



John Jacob Dillenius was born in Germany, in 1687, 

 came to England in 1721, was appointed Professor of Botany 

 in the University of Oxford about the year 1729, which of- 

 fice he held till his death, in 1747. Dillenius made a num- 

 ber of botanical publications ; but that which has more than 

 any other immortalized his name is the Historia Muscoruniy 

 Sec. 4to. 1741. Indeed, his discoveries in the natural history 

 of the Mosses were so numerous and brilliant, that he deserves, 

 more than any other individual, to be called the father of this 

 branch of botany. 



English Botany, p. 141. 



To the list of writers on English Botany, given in the above- 

 mentioned page, may be added Professor Martyn, who has 

 written ably on the subject; Mr. Relhan, who has given a 

 valuable Flora Cantabrigicnsis ; Mr. Abbot, whosQ Flora 

 Bedfordiensis is also a useful work ; and Mr. Sowerby, 

 whose English Botany, and English Fungi, are worthy of 

 much commendation. Hill and Wilson have also written 

 on English plants. 



Sloane. p. 141. 



Sir Hans Sloaxe was born in Ireland, April 16, 1660^, 

 He studied medicine in London, where he long practised phy- 



