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plans, he began to arrange his materials for a third edition, upon the 
basis of the second, and finally bequeathed to one of his pupils, M. 
Guillemin, the right to complete and publish it. But the legatee and 
favorite pupil soon followed the testator to the grave, before he had 
even commenced the fulfilment of the task. Under these circumstances 
this duty devolved upon the author’s son, the present Prof. De Candolle, 
who prescribed to himself the following rules in its execution, viz. to 
make no alterations whatever, except in the following cases: Ist, where 
the author himself had already made certain changes, or had stricken 
out certain passages in his interleaved copy devoted to this use: or 2d, 
where he had already published, in some subsequent work, opinions dif- 
ferent from those given in the Theorie: or 3d, where any of the facts 
adduced have since been ascertained to be erroneous: or 4th, where 
further details were requisite to render any statement more intelligible. 
Now that this work, so valuable in itself, and so inseparably connected 
with the history of the science, has at length been rendered generally 
accessible, we trust it will find a place in every botanical library in this 
country. A. Gr. 
6. Fifty Eighth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of 
the State of New York. Made to the Legislature, March 1, 1845. 
Albany: printed by E. Mack, Printer to the Senate. 1845. Senate 
Document No. 51. pp. 290, 8vo.—The Regents of the University of 
the State of New York, constitute a Board of nineteen, besides three 
ex-officio members, viz. the governor, lieut. governor, and secretary 
of state. The vacancies by death or resignation are filled by the Leg- 
islature. This Board has the governmental management of the inter- 
ests of education in the colleges and academies of the state. ‘The re- 
gents require all those literary institutions, which receive pecuniary pat- 
ronage from the state, to make an annual report on all the important 
matters of their arrangements, finances, text books, number of students, 
teachers or faculty, value of apparatus, volumes of library, amount of 
authors studied and time employed in doing it, ages of students report- 
ed in the academies, and their record of temperature and winds and 
weather, as well as the quantity of rain and snow, &c. In this way 
the regents hold all these institutions “ subject to their visitation,” and 
have the right to a direct examination of them by a committee of their 
number. The regents give specific instructions, in respect to these re- 
ports, and require them to be made after a particular form. From these 
reports, the regents of the university derive their annual report to the 
Legislature, and thus present a luminous view of the condition of their lit- 
erary institutions, and of the great and beneficent results they are the means 
of accomplishing. This board is made to sustain a very important and 
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