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arrangement of Canadian botanists Professor Penhallow not only 

 gives Sarrasin's full name, but the exact date of his death : - 



" Sarrasin, Michel.— Born in 1659; died at Quebec, Sept. 9th, 

 1734. Physician at the Court of Quebec in 1730." 



' Thus it would appear that, instead of being named, as Dr. 

 Macfarlane's discussion makes out, for a theoretical Dr. " D." 

 Sarrasin, of Quebec, who died " about c. 1730-1740 ? " the genus 

 Sarracenia (Sarracena) was dedicated by Tournefort to Dr. Michel 



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Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. 



BIBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTES. 



XLII. — Plants of the Antilles. 



In the admirable bibliography with which Dr. Urban has 

 enriched the Symbolce Antillana, I find no mention of a book 



recently acquired for the library of the New York Botanic Garden, 

 as to whose authorship Anna M. Vail, the librarian, lately wrote to 

 me. Miss Vail, having transcribed the title, added a description 

 of the work, which I quote : 



" Voyages to the Madeira and Leeward Caribbean Isles ; with 

 Sketches of the Natural History of these Islands. By Maria B****** 



Edinburgh : Printed for Peter Hill and T. Cadell, London. 1792. 



" It is a narrow 8vo, with 9 pages of preface and 105 pp. of 

 text. The lady dedicates her little book to Mr. William Smellie, 

 member of the Antiquarian and Boyal Societies of Edinburgh. 

 She travelled to the West Indies via Madeira in 1788, and describes 

 a voyage to St. Christopher's in the same year, and a tour through 

 Antigua and Barbuda in 1790, but her principal efforts are focused 

 on a Geographical Description and Natural History of Antigua, 

 1791. The list of plants, pp. 81-105, would appear to be about 

 the first flora of the island, as far as we have been able to discover 

 here with the bibliographies that we have at our command." 



I was unable to supply any information as to the authorship of 

 the book, but Mr. S. F. Skan, of the Kew Herbarium, has been 

 more fortunate. He points out to me that in Dryander's Catalogue 

 of the Banksian library and in the British Museum Catalogue of 

 Printed Books, from which it appears that another edition (? a re- 

 print) of the book was published at Salem in 1802, the name is 

 given as Eiddell, and directs my attention to the following passage 

 m the Dictionary of National Biography (xlviii. 272) under Robert 

 Eiddell, a patron of Robert Burns : " By 1792 Burns was on very 

 friendly terms with Riddell's brother. Walter Eiddell of Woodley 



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* [He died on the 8th and was buried on the 9th ; see Laflamme, 1. c. 11. 

 Ed. Jours. Bot.] 



