452 Bibliography. 



6. Dr. George Fownes. — Dr. Fownes, Professor of Practical Chem- 

 istry, at University College, London, has recently died at the age of 34. 

 He is the author of an excellent Manual of Chemistry, which has been 



reprinted in this country. 



7. Dr. Prichard, (Ath., No. 1108, p. 70.)— Ethnological science has 

 recently sustained a serious loss by the death of Dr. Prichard. He 

 was well known by his great work " Researches into the Physical His- 

 tory of Man," in five volumes, — and his yet more popular " Natural 

 History of Man." In addition to these, he was the author of" An Es- 

 say on the Vilal Principle," a treatise on u Insanity," a book " On the 

 Eastern Origin of the Celtic Language," and many other works and 

 essays which appeared in the medical journals. At the time of his 

 death, Dr. Prichard was president of the Ethnological Society. 



VI. Bibliography. 



1. Botanical Collections in Neio Mexico, and in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. — The first part of the Account of the Collection of Plants made 

 in New Mexico by Mr. Fendler, with descriptions of the new species, 

 critical remarks, and characters of other undescribed or little known 

 plants from surrounding regions, is printed as the first article of the 

 fourth volume (new series) of the Memoirs of the American Academy, 

 now in press; and separate copies (of one hundred and sixteen pages, 

 quarto) are distributed to the subscribers to Fendler's collections. 

 We wish to solicit further encouragement to this adventurous explorer, 

 in the way of subscriptions to his collections. Several sets of the 

 Santa Fe collection, in specimens of unrivaled beauty and complete- 

 ness, are still in the hands of Dr. Gray, at Cambridge, and of Mr- 

 Heward at London, who may be applied to for them. Mr. Fendler is 

 now on his way to explore the great interior basin between the Sierra 

 Nevada of California, and the Rocky Mountains, especially around the 

 Great Salt Lake, the Utah Lake, and the adjacent mountains. The 

 collections are to be studied and distributed by Dr. Gray and by Dr. 

 Engelmann, to whom those desirous to subscribe for them should apply* 

 and will be issued at the same price as the Santa Fe collection, namely 

 at ten dollars per hundred specimens. 



In order that the botany of New Mexico should be further made 

 known, particularly of the southern portion, Mr. Charles Wright is now 

 on his way from Texas across to El Paso on the Rio del Norte, a little 

 below lat. 32°, in the vicinity of which, and especially in the moun- 

 tains east and west of the valley, he will collect during the present 

 season; and the following year he proposes to extend his explorations, 

 as opportunities offer, into other parts of the country, yet untrodden by 

 botanists. Sets of the plants he may collect will be offered to subscri- 

 bers, in the order of their application, at the same price as those of 

 Fendler. A. Gr. 



2. Hooker's London Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscel- 

 lany. — This is the title of a new series of Hooker's Journal of Botany 

 which commenced at the beginning of the present year. It appears 

 that there were not subscribers enough to sustain a single Botanical 

 Journal of the kind ; and the attempt is now made to secure an ade- 



