OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 997 



One hundred and eightieth generation. Jan. 1st, 1701, mostly beyond youth: the Greek writers 

 Elias Meniates d. 1714, Meletius of Athens d. 1728, Alexander Mavrocordatus d 1719: the Slavonic 

 writers, Gliick of Livonia, Kirsha Danilof, and Paul Ritter: other writers, N. Boileau Despreaux ; 

 Humphry Prideaux ; John George Graevius; P. Bayle ; Gilbert Burnet; Vincent de Filicaia ; Nich- 

 olas Malebranche ; Henry Dodwell ; James Gronovius ; William Lloyd; madame Dacier ; Fdnelon ; 

 Godfrey Wm. Leibnitz; Daniel Huet; John Flamstead ; Andrew Dacier; J. Vincent Gravina ; 

 Richard Bentley ; Joseph Addison ; sir Richard Steele; Matthew Prior; John Hardouin; John Le 

 Clerc ; James Lenfant ; abb^ Vertot ; John Friend ; Bernard de Montfaucon ; Samuel Clarke ; J. 

 Albertus Fabricius ; John Arbuthnot ; and cardinal Polignac : the Orientalists, Galland, Renaudot : 

 the microscopic observer Antonius Van Leeuwenhoek d. 1723: the botanists, Sam. Dale d. 1739, 

 Gun th . Christ. Schelhammer d. 1716, Guid. Crescent. Fagon d. 1718, Io. Gottfr. Olearius d. 171 1, 

 Petr. Hottonus, Alex. Christ. Gakenholz, Io. Henr. Burkhard d 1738, Christian Knaut d. 1716, 

 Franc. Petit, Sam. Morlandus, Stephan. Franc. Geoffroy d. 1731, Patrick Blair, Mart. Dan. Johrenius 

 d. 1718, Abrah. Rehfeld, David Wipacher, H. I. Meyenberg, C. H. Erndtel d 1734, Hellvving d. 1748, 

 Ant. Tita, and Aegid. de Koker : the publishers, Awnsham and John Churchill : the painters, Godfrey 

 Kneller, Carlo Cignani d. 1719: the engraver, Gerard Edelinck d. 1707. 



" The same year " (Humphreys' hist, account 41, and Holmes), in England, the Society for prop- 

 agating the Gospel in foreign parts established. Acting it would seem, chiefly to extend the Episcopal 

 Church (see 1706). By the secretary, Rev. Dr. Humphreys, the population of the English colonies 

 in North America estimated on inquiry at "two hundred and sixty-two thousand." 



" Aug. 27th " (encycl. meth., and Holmes), at Madrid, signing of a treaty between the two kings 

 " tres-chre'tien et catholique," establishing the Assiente ; a French company for transporting Negroes 

 into the Spanish settlements in America. 



"In this year" (Linn. fl. suec. p. x), Olaus Rudbeck jun., "from 1690" professor of Botany at 

 Upsal, publishing the second volume of his Campi Elysii, enumerating Narcissus trilobus 61. f. 3 ; — 

 the first volume, containing the grasses, was published "in 1702." He died "in 1740" (Spreng.). 

 " 1702, March 8th " (Nicol), William III. succeeded by Anne, now queen of united Britain. 

 "The same year" (Blair), in Europe, general war against France and Spain. — This continued 

 twelve years, until the Treaty of Baden. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Io. lac. Scheuchzer, a brother of loan., visiting the alpine region of 

 Switzerland, meeting with Poa supina vi. pi. 17, Phyteuma Scheuchzeri 460, P. ovata 518, Juncus 

 Jncquini i. pi. 5. f. 2, and Achillea vwschata ii. pi. 21. f. 3. — He continued his excursions "until 

 171 1," published an account of them "in 1723," and died "in 1733." 



Poa laxa of the Arctic region and mountain summits farther South. A grass distinguished from 

 P. alpina by fewer florets and a creeping root (Pers.) ; observed by Scheuchzer it. vi. 457 pi. 6 on 

 the Swiss Alps,— also by Haenke sudet. 118; known to grow in Spitzbergen, Lapland, and on the 

 mountains of Scotland and Germany (Sabine, and Hook ) ; observed by Chaubard on the mountains 

 of Arcadia in the Peloponnesus. Westward, is known to grow in Greenland (Sabine, and Wats.) ; 

 observed by Nuttall, and myself, in the alpine region of the White mountains ; and according to A. 

 Gray grows also on the "alpine mountain-tops of Maine," and "Northern New York, and high 

 northward." 



"In this year" (Linn, sp.), Petiver publishing his Gazoph. naturae, enumerating Cornucopiae 

 cucullatum gaz. pi. 73, Protea nana gaz. 25. 7, P. Levisanus gaz. 5. 7, Polypremum procumbens gaz. 

 5. 6, Blaeria ericoides gaz. 2. 10, Spigelia anthelmia gaz. 59. 10, Cassine maurocenia gaz 57. 4, 

 Crassiela subulata gaz. 57. 4, Eucomis nana gaz. 85. 6, Loranthus scurrula gaz. 63. 8, Phyllodoce 

 Daboeci gaz. 27. 4, Erica corifolia gaz. 3. 7, Euphorbia pilulifera gaz. 80. 14; Mesembryanthemum 

 gcniculiflorum, corniculatum, and emarginatum gaz. 77. 3 to 78. 3 ; Ranunculus nodiflorus gaz. 24. 

 9, Hyobanche sanguinca gaz. 37. 4, Hermannia althaeifolia gaz. 43. 2, Passiflora pedata gaz. 114 4; 

 Pelargonium angulosum, vilifolium, and trifidum gaz. 84. 5-11, dotalaria biflora gaz. 30. 10, Hallia 

 sororia gaz. 32. 1, Hedysarum bupleurifoliwu gaz. 11. 12, H. nummularifolium gaz. 26. 4, H. vagi- 

 nale gaz. 26. 1, Lespedeza lahbrosa gaz. 30. 11, Indigofera depressa gaz. 83. 9, Athanasia punctata 

 gaz. 81. 6 A . parviflora gaz. 34. I ; Gnaphalium fasciculatum, fastigiatum, and spicatum gaz. 7. 3 

 to 82. 6; 'stoede plumosa, cinerea, and Jus ca gaz. 3. 9 to 5. 4; Helleborine oxyglotlis gaz. 128. 5, 

 Sagittaria trifolia gaz. 19. 3, Sapium sebiferum gaz. 34. 3, Dioscorea oppositifolia gaz. 31. 6; Acros- 

 tic/mm speciosum, and inequale gaz. 61. 5 and 49. 4; Polypodium stigmositm gaz. 61. 4, Adiantum 

 Philippense gaz. 4. 4, Cheilanthes suaveolens gaz. 73. 4, Schizaea dichotoma gaz. 70. 12, Lygodium 



circinatum gaz. 64. 10. .,„.., 



"1703 A. D." (art de verif.), Mustafa II. succeeded by Achmed III., twenty-fourth Turkish 



sultan. Coins issued at Cairo by Achmed III., are figured in Marcel p. 225. 



"The same year" (Spreng.), Augustin. Lippi sent into Abyssinia, meeting with Heliotropium 



eriocarpum, Adonis marginata, Cochlearia Mlotica, Artemisia Lippii, and Inula crispa. — He was 



slain in the following year. 



