374 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



Cubenses," named, and the new species described in 1861, 

 from Charles Wright's earlier collections in Cuba, and dis- 

 tributed in sets by the collector. His researches upon later 

 and more extensive collections by Mr. Wright remain in the 

 form of notes and pencil sketches, in which many new species 

 are indicated. The same may be said of an earlier still un- 

 published collection, made by Fendler in Venezuela. Another 

 collection, of great extent and interest, which was long ago 

 elaborately prepared for publication^ and illustrated by very 

 many exquisite drawings, rests in his portfolios, through delays 

 over which Mr. Sullivant had no control ; namely, the Bry- 

 ology of Rodgers's United States North Pacific Exploring 

 Expedition, of which Charles Wright was botanist. Brief 

 characters of the principal new species were, however, duly 

 published in this as in other departments of the botany of 

 that expedition. It is much to be regretted that the drawings 

 which illustrate them have not yet been engraved and given 

 to the scientific world. 



This has fortunately been done in the case of the South 

 Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore Wilkes. 

 For, although the volume containing the Mosses has not even 

 yet been issued by government, Mr. Sullivant's portion of it 

 was published in a separate edition in the year 1859. It 

 forms a sumptuous imperial folio, the letter-press having been 

 made up into large pages, and printed on paper which matches 

 the plates, twenty-six in number. 



One volume of the Pacific Railroad Reports, i. e. the fourth, 

 contains a paper by Mr. Sullivant, being his account of the 

 Mosses collected in AVhipple's Exploration. It consists of 

 only a dozen pages of letter-press, but is illustrated by ten 

 admirable plates of new species. 



The " Icones Muscorum," however, is Mr. Sullivant's 

 crowning work. It consists, as the title indicates, of " Fig- 

 ures and Descriptions of most of those Mosses peculiar to 

 eastern North America which have not been heretofore fig- 

 ured," and forms an imperial octavo volume, with one hun- 

 dred and twenty-nine copperplates, published in 1864. The 

 letter-press and the plates (upon which last alone several 



