IOI2 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



^T. phylicifolia 8. f. d, 5". temiifolia 8. f. e, 5. hastata 8. f. g. m., 5. Lapponum 8. f. t, S. obhcsifolia 

 8. f. u, Cetraria nivalis If. f. i, Par/nclia cenirifuga n. 2, Peltidea crocea II. f. 3, Baeomyces defor- 

 mis 11. f. 5, also Aim Bottnica n. 49. 



Siellaria ccrastoidcs of the Arctic region and mountains farther South. Observed by Linnaeus 

 in Lapland ; — by Haller, and Decandolle on the Swiss Alps ; by Sibthorp, on the Bithynian Olympus ; 

 by Pallas, in Yerchoturia ; and known to grow in Ireland and on the Pyrenees (fl. Dan. pi. 92, Villars iii. 

 pi. 46, Hook., and Wats.). Westward, was observed by Sabine in Iceland and Greenland (Hook.). 



"The same year" (Anders., and Holmes), a charter granted by George II. for the territory 

 beyond the Savannah river, extending "westward in direct lines to the South Seas." In his honour, 

 the new territory received the name of " Georgia." 



Salem in Massachusetts containing " five hundred and twenty houses, five thousand inhabitants ; " 

 and the neighbouring town of Marblebead employing " in the codfishery about one hundred and twenty 

 schooners of about fifty tons burden, and about a thousand seamen " (Brit. emp. ii. 35, and Holmes). 



In this vear (Spreng.), Houstoun continuing his figures and descriptions of plants observed on 

 Cuba, Jamaica, and around Vera Cruz, Dicliplera scorpioides pi. 1, Cordia geraseanthus 6, Ricliardia 

 scabra 9, Pelrea vohibilis 11, Lippia Americana 12, Jatropha hcrbacca 15. J/i'/oc/ria dipn'ssa ms,, 

 Inula satureioides 19, Clomcnoclema aurantia 18, Melampodium Aiiiericauum 21, Croton ar^atnnu 

 22, Salix Houstoniana at Vera Cruz, Mitreola sessilifolia ms. pi. (Linn. sp. pi.), Schranhia acnleata 

 25, Desmaiithus plenns 23, and Acacia filicina 26. — He died in Mexico "in 1733," and his Reliq. 

 was published "in 17S1." 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Gerber following the banks of the Don and Volga. — He died " in 1743." 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Heinzelmann visiting the Ural, the country around Orenburg, and a 

 portion of Tartary. 



"1733. Feb. 1st" (univ. hist. xl. 440, and Holmes), founding by James Oglethorpe of the city 

 of Savannah; near the aboriginal village of Yamacraw. "Before June 9th," a treaty of peace was 

 concluded there with the powerful tribe of the Creeks. 



"The same year" (coll. hist. iii. 273, and Holmes), the first lodge of Freemasons holden in 

 Boston. 



"The same year" (Raynal v. 486, and Holmes), the uninhabited island of Santa Cruz in the 

 West Indies, purchased of France by Frederick V. of Denmark. A fortress soon afterwards built 

 on the island by the Danes. 



" In or about this year " (Kobell iv. ), the peculiar metal cobalt, obtained by Brandt. 



One hundred and eighty-first generation. May 1st, 1734. mostly beyond youth : the Greek writers, 

 Vitzentzus Cornarus d. after 1737, Theophilus Corydaleus d. 1744: the Slavonic writers, Antiochus 

 Kantemir, Michael Lomonosof, J. Raitch, and Dosithei Obradovitch : other writers, Jonathan Swift; 

 Edmund Halley ; Alexander Pope; Charles Rollin ; abbe" du Bos; Bernard de Fontenelle ; Colin 

 Maclaurin; James Thomson ; Henry Fielding ; Charles de Secondat ; baron .Montesquieu; G. Fred- 

 erick Handell ; James Bradley ; Comers Middleton ; Jacques Cassini ; Benjamin Robins; Bernard 

 de Behdor ; N. Louis de la Caille ; Edward Young : the zoologists J. A. Peyssonel, Joh. Steph. Guet- 

 tard, Petrus Artedi d. 1735: the botanists, Io. Philippus Breynius d. 1764, Anton. Jussieu d. 1758, 

 Claud. Ioseph Geoffroy d. 1752, Renat. Ant. Reaumur d. 1757, lac. Logan, Io. Ern. Hebenstreit d. 

 1757, Io. lac. Lerche d. 17S0, Io. Blackstone d. 1753, Carol. Deering d. 1749, Ionas Ramus, Io. H. 

 Heucherus d. 1747, A. Vater d. 1751, Laur. Heisterus d. 175S, Io. Gul. Weinmann. Io. H. Kniphof d. 

 1762, Isaac Rand, Stephen Hales d. 1761, Io. Wollg. Wedel d. 1757, Ev. lac. Wachendorf d. 175S, 



pi. 2. f. 4 in Lapland, — by Soujef at 67° on the Oby (Pall.), and known to grow as far as Daouria 

 and Kamtchatka (Ledeb.) ; also on the Breadalbane mountains in Scotland (Bab., and Wats.), at 

 some isolated points on the Swiss and Stvrian Alps (Koch), and on mountain-summits in Transyl- 

 vania (Baunig., and A. Dec). Westward, was observed by Sabine in Greenland, and received by 

 Hooker from Spitzbergen, Melville Island and the Arctic shore of North America, the Rocky moun- 

 tains and Kotzebue Sound. 



Juiicus arclicus of Arctic Europe and Asia, and alpine summits farther South. Observed by 

 Linnaeus n. 116 in Lapland — (Spreng.) ; distinguished by Wildenow, and known to grow in Scan- 

 dinavia (Fries), Northern Russia and Siberia to the vicinity of Lake Baikal (Ledeb.) ; also on the 

 Pyrenees (Benth.), and Swiss Alps (Koch, and A. Dec). Regarded by Ledebour as perhaps growing 

 at Sitka, but not certainly found on Iceland. 



Alsine biflora of .Arctic Europe and Asia and alpine summits farther South. Observed by Lin- 

 naeus 15S in Lapland — (Oeder fl. Dan. pi. 12, and Swartz) ; known to grow also on the mountains 

 of Norway and Sweden (Fries), the Northern portion of the Ural mountains and of Siberia and on 

 the Altaian mountains (Ledeb.). Farther South, has been found in a single district in Switzerland, 

 near the perpetual snow at Bex and Fouly (Koch, and A. Dec ). 



