288 Recent Progress and present State of Systematic Botany. 
is not improbable that careful examination might detect small 
atches of the marble caught and held in some of the folds 
igh up on the mountain-side. The point at which we have 
now struck this formation is about it ps miles northeast of 
Murphy, along the direct line of outer 
Tf, instead of crossing at Rock Point and ascending Cheowa, 
we follow up the Little Tennessee, we find heavy-bedded, gray, 
Chilhowee quartzytes exposed as, near Hazelnut Creek, we ap- 
sed and pass the syieHinl just noticed as running from 
ng Ridge across Cheowa. Hereabouts are also laminated 
micaceous sandstones and chloritic slates, with veins of milky 
quartz. These and similar beds continue to above the mouth of 
the Tuckaseege, whose dip is at first pretty regularly northwest, 
but soon hee irregular, turning to southwest and even to ° 
south, as if some transverse axes of fold were developed, not far 
to the northeastward. As we approach and pass the ph of 
Nantahala River, the same beds come down again, after 
the axis of an anticlinal about a mile below Ashe’s Mil: the 
dips, at first nearly east, soon become S. 20° E. Along the axis 
of the anticlinal, which is the equivalent of that running from 
Ducktown past Davidson’s, there are said to be copper ores in 
schist along Stekoa Creek. Five or six miles above the Nanta- 
hala, near Wm. Dehart’s, we are supposed to reach the range of 
the Valley aides marble, wt a its outcrop has not yet been 
reported quite so far northea 
(To te continued.) 
Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 25th, 1875. 
Art. XXXI—Bentham, On the recent Progress and present 
tate of Systematic Botany.* 
Hap Mr. Bentham remained a little longer in the paeendaotie’ 
chair of the Linnean Society, his recent elaborate paper would 
substantially have been the staple of the last of that series of 
annual addresses, most of which have been noticed and several 
reprinted in this Journal. The present report is too long to re- 
print, and very difficult to abridge. A sketch of the progress of 
the science as regarded by a botanist who personally conversed 
with an active correspondent of Linnzeus (Gouan of Mont- 
pellier); who received useful hints on the method of botanical 
7 from A. L. de Jussieu, the founder of the Natural Sys 
m; Ww ae was in intimate relations with the elder DeCando le, 
eaaal Lindley,-and Hooker; who has studied in all the Huro- 
Report made to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 
werd separately issued, pp. 54, 8vo. 
