1034 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANCxEMENT 



"March 7th " (Holmes), news of the destruction of the tea communicated in a message from 

 the king to both houses of Parliament. An Act was at once passed, Closing the port of Boston. 

 Another Act followed, For "better regulating the government of Massachusetts : " and " May 13th,'' 

 Thomas Gage, commander in chief of the royal forces in North America, was appointed governor of 

 Massachusetts. 



"June 7th" (Holmes), meeting of the Massachusetts Legislature at Salem; having been 

 removed there by General Gage. A resolution was adopted, Recommending the appointment of 

 committees from the several colonics, to consult together on the present state of affairs. Accord- 

 ingly on " Sept. 4th," committees from eleven colonies made their appearance at Philadelphia; on 

 the following day, formed themselves into a Congress, and elected Peyton Randolph of Virginia 

 president ; and after a session of " eight weeks " dissolved, Recommending however, that another 

 Congress be held in the following year, " should events make their meeting necessary." On "Sept. 

 1st," general and governor G.ige seized the powder in the arsenal at Charlestown : military prepara- 

 tions were now made by the colonists ; and " toward the close of the year,'' news arrived of the pro- 

 hibition of the export of military stores from Britain. 



"Towards the middle of March" (Pall. v. 315), spring opening at Zarizyn on the Volga, and 

 Pallas observing the vernal plants, including Tulipa biflora, and T. syhvsiris : leaving ■■ April 24th " 

 for the ruined city on the Aktouba, and continuing beyond, meeting with Echinospermitm minimum, 

 Erysimum polyiei a/nm, on the " 2Sth " he reached the lake and hill of Bogdo-Oola, held sicred by 

 the Calmucks. After a second visit " May 21st," he returned to Zarizyn, took final leave "June 4th," 

 and "July 3d " arrived at Moscow. 



"April 6th" (J. Roberts in hist. coll. iv. 240), Hood's Island in the Marquesas Group discovered 

 by Cook, its native name not given. Forster accompanying him meeting with * Dichoudra repots. 

 — Arriving home, he published his Char.ic. gen. " in 1776," Discov. in North '• in 1786." ( L Forster, 

 who accompanied his father on Cook's Second Voyage, — published his own account in " 17S4," Plant. 

 Escul. ins. austr. in " 1 7SO," and died in " 17x14." 



"Aug. 9th" (Humb. iii. 8), Nootka Sound in Northwest America discovered and entered by 

 Juan Perez. 



" In this year" (Winckl.), J. A. Murray publishing his Systema vegetabil., enumerating Spiraea 

 lobata. 



"The same year" (art de verif.), Mustafa III. succeeded by Abd-el-Hamid, twenty-eighth Turk- 

 ish sultan. Coins issued at Cairo by Abd-el-Hamid, are figured in Marcel p. 249. 



"The same year" (Nicol.), Louis XV. succeeded by Louis XVI., now king of France. 



" In this year" (A. de J. gen. plant., and Winckler), Bernard de Jussieu publishing his Methodus, 

 establishing in the Royal gardens of Paris an arrangement of plants according to Natural Orders. — 

 He died " Nov. 6th 1776." 



"The same year" (Kobell iv.), re-discovery by Priestly of oxygen gas — Leading to the recog- 

 nition of many of its compounds, and the reconstruction of the science of Chemistry by Lavoisier. 



"Sept. 20th" (D'avezac in rec. voy. et mem. iv.), Andia y Varcla with two ships sailing from 

 Callao Westward. "Oct. 30th," he discovered a low island in " Lat. 17 20' Long. 23S 58''' and 

 named it San-Narcisso; "Nov. 1st," a low island called by the natives Noaroa, in "Lat. 17 44' 

 Long. 236 49' ; " on the "6th," a high island Matea, in " Lat. 16 50' Long. 230 6' ; " on the " 7th," 

 a high island called by the natives Mai'tia, in "Lat. 17 44' Long. 229 34';" and on the " 8th," 

 arrived in sight of Taheiti. 



"1775, Feb. 26th" (Stiles, and Holmes), troops on their way through Salem to seize military 

 stores, prevented at a bridge, "on the opposite side of which colonel Pickering had mustered thirty 

 or forty men" and raised the draw: (the road being private property, the troops had not the right 

 to pass. Rev. Dr. Barnard, interceding with the British commander to prevent firing, at length hit 

 upon an argument that had weight : saying substantially, This crowd around your troops is as you 

 see unarmed, but all know where to get muskets in a veryfew moments, and how to use them. C. P. can 

 recollect when every citizen of the military age who did not parade in the militia kept a musket with 

 accoutrements for inspection). 



* Gailiana molilalia of the mountains of Tasmania and New Zealand. Observed by Forster 

 prod. 133 in New Zealand ; —known to grow also on mountain-summits in Tasmania and the neigh- 

 bouring portion of Australia (Oriscb., and A. Dec). 



'Euphrasia piscatona of Mexico. Observed by Forster among the Tropical islands of the Pacific 

 — (Steud.); by myself, introduced throughout by Polynesians, from the Hawaiian Islands and Metia 

 to the Feejeean Islands. Eastward, was observed hy Barclay at Ke.ilejo on the Pacific coast of 

 Tropical America (Benth. bot. Sulph., and A. Dec). From transported specimens, described bv Aiton 

 (Pers.). J 



