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to the undertaking in which he embarked with characteristic enthusiasm. 

 The victim of pulmonary disease, " his strength failed him ere the expe- 

 dition was fairly under way ; and he died at Franklin, on the banks of 

 the Missouri, on the first day of September, 1819, in the forty-first year 

 of his age. His gentle spirit forsook its frail tenement in a region far 

 remote from his anxious family, and the wild flowers of the west, for 

 more than twenty years, have been blooming on his lonely grave ; but 

 the recollection of his virtues continues to be fondly cherished by every 

 surviving friend ; and his ai'dor in the pursuit of his favorite science will 

 render his memory forever dear to the true lovers of American botany." 

 We had intended to extract a large part of the editor's neat and 

 concise biographical sketch, and especially to make some selections 

 from the correspondence ; but we fear that we have already exceeded 

 the limits of a bibliographical notice. Were we allowed a single ex- 

 tract, our choice would fall upon pages 215-216, relating to the Indians 

 of Florida and Georgia, and the treatment they have received. In his 

 love and sympathy for these children of the forest, Dr. Baldwin forcibly 

 reminds us of his predecessor, William Bartram, (to whom, by the way, 

 he paid a visit in 1817, of which a pleasing notice is given on p. 238.) 

 The latter enjoyed the hospitality of these tribes in their palmy days. 

 The indignant epistle of Baldwin describes and denounces a course of 

 policy which he observed in full operation, and which, in less than thirty 

 years, has wrought out the predicted result. But we must abruptly con- 

 clude our desultory remarks with the expression of our thanks to Dr. 

 Darlington, for this worthy tribute to the memory of a most zealous 

 botanist, and very important contribution to the history of the amiable 

 science in this country. A. Gk. 



2. Cours elementaire de Botanique ; par M. Adrien de Jtjssieu, 

 Professeur au Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, etc. etc. Paris. Part I. 

 pp. 226, 12mo. — This treatise forms a part of an elementary course of 

 natural history, for the use of the colleges and other schools in France, 

 prepared in conformity with a programme of the Council of Public In- 

 struction on the 14th of September, 1840, and which consists of three 

 small volumes ; that on Zoology by Milne Edwards ; that on Mineralogy 

 and Geology by Beudant ; while the botanical portion was confided to 

 the hands of the son of the immortal author of the Genera Plantarum, 

 and his successor in the professorship at the Royal Museum of Natural 

 History. The first part of the volume only has yet appeared, and is 

 devoted to the Organs and functions of vegetation, or nutrition. It in- 

 cludes, however, a very interesting chapter upon Inflorescence, a subject 

 which would seem rather to belong to the system of reproduction, but 

 which is very naturally introduced in connection with the chapter on 



