Floristie work. — New England. 7 
R. 5. WILLIAMS contributes to the Plant World, Botanical Notes on the Way 
to Dawson, in 1899 and J. B. FLETT in the fourth volume of the same journal 
Notes on the Flora about Nome City (1900). The two sumptuous volumes 
published as the Results of the HARRIMAN Alaska Expedition issued with 
the cooperation of the Washington Academy of Sciences contain several 
chapters on the flora of the region visited, particularly one chapter on the 
forests of Alaska by BERNARD E. FERNOW, who also furnishes an account of 
these forests to the eighth volume of Forestry and Irrigation (66). 
No. 19, North American Fauna (1900) contains an account of the flora of 
the Yukon River Valley, as the results of a biologie reconnoissance of the river 
by WILFRED H. OsGoop, who the next year ıgor contributes to number 2, 
North American Fauna, a description of the natural history of the Cook Inlet 
region, including a short account of the flora. 
The flora of the Pribilof islands in Bering Sea has been investigated 
by JAMES MAcouN (1893), C. HART MERRIAM (1892). A paper by James 
M. MAcouN, published as a part of the report on the furseals and furseal is- 
lands (Washington 1899), gives a list of the plants known to grow on the 
islands. 
U. New England. 
No one region in North America has been more carefully studied botanic- 
ally than New England. Many books and papers have at various times been 
published on its flora, and it is, therefore, incumbent on the writer to refer 
to only the most important that have appeared. 
The first serious attempt to describe the natural products of New England 
was made by JOHN JOSSELYN in two volumes entitled, “New England Rarities 
discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpants and Plants of that Country, 
(London 1672)”. However, Dr. MANASSEH CUTLER may be called the first 
New England botanist. In 1785 in the first volume of the Memoirs of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences was printed the chief published re- 
sult of this botanist’s studies in a paper entitled “Account of some of the 
Vegetable Productions growing in this part of America, botanically arranged”. 
In July 1784, CUTLER was a member of the first party to ascend the White 
Mountains for scientific observation; and he repeated the trip twenty years 
after. Dr. BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE was a botanist of note, professor of the 
theory and practice of the physic in the University at Cambridge, Mass., and 
his botanic lectures were printed in the Monthly Anthology from 1804 to 
1808, and in 1811, they were first published at Boston in a volume entitled 
The Botanist. In 1805, the botanic garden at Cambridge was established and 
WiLLıam DANDRIDGE PEcK became the first incumbent of the chair of natural 
history. He was succeeded by THOMAS NUTTALL, who remained as curator of 
the garden until 1828. JacoB BIGELOW, a contemporary of Peck and Nuttall, 
published his Florula Bostoniensis in 1814. The American Medical Botany 
. Was published in three volumes between ı817 and ı820 and was long the 
