290 * Scientific Intelligence. 
early as the year 1819 he had become a Fellow of the Linnean Society 
of London; and afterwards, for the last twenty-five years, he gave it con- 
tinuous and invaluable service as Secretary, Treasurer, or Vice President, 
one time it was thought that Dr. Boott might be recalled to his 
native country and to an active scientific life. Nearly thirty years ago 
he was offered the chair of Natural History in Harvard University,— 
a chair which had remained vacant since the death of Professor Peck 
of his great work, entitled Illustrations of the Genus Carex, a fol 
ume with 200 plates, admirably representing about that number of ng 
cies, A very large proportion of them were North American specie hi 
which he naturally always took a special interest. In the letter of d 
cation of this work to his friend John Amo: well, Esq., of some? 
Dr. Boott states that his original design “was limited to the ares 
of the Carices of North America,” but that the large collections brovgh 
rawings, engravings, and _ letter- having been produced at bis ® 
: wings gravings, and letter-press having been pr given away. 
nor. put forth any promise to continue the w 
Part Second quietly appeared, without a word of preface. 
But in 1860 
