IO48 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"End of July" (Walp. trav. 169), arrival of W. G. Browne in Dar-Fur, accompanying the 

 Soudan caravan. He was detained in the country — until "the spring of 1796," when he was 

 allowed to depart with a return caravan for Siout. 



"1793-4 A. D." (Mann), Vancouver re-visiting the Hawaiian Islands, where Menzies "made 

 large and valuable collections, mostly on Hawaii." 



" [794, March " (Holmes), by Congress, acts passed : To provide a naval armament ; and For 

 fortifying and garrisoning the principal ports in the United States. "July," insurrection in Western 

 Pennsylvania ; the insurgents surrendering in " October," on the approach of a body of fifteen hun- 

 dred militia. " Nov. 19th," treaty with Britain of amity, commerce, and navigation, signed at London 

 by John Jay on the part of the United States. 



"July 28th" (Maunder), Robespierre, member of an executive committee, beheaded; and com- 

 parative quiet restored. The constitution of "the third year" was soon afterwards put in force; a 

 " directory " of five persons having the executive power. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Adrian Hardy Haworth * publishing his Obs. on Mcsembryanlhemum ; 



— "in 1812," his Synops. plant, succulent. 



"In this year" (Spreng.), after his letters from Sicily and Turkey in " 1779-S4," Domenico Ses- 

 tini publishing his Viagg. da Bucharest a Constantinople. 



" In this year " (title-page, and Winckler), Ottav. Targioni-Tozetti publishing his Institut. botan. ; 



— "in 1809," his Diet, botan. nom. vulg., a second edition "in 1825," and died "in 1829." 



" The same year " (Maunder), the Dutch driven out of Ceylon by the English. — The island was 

 afterwards confirmed to Britain by the treaty at Amiens. 



•' Dec. 23d " (Dallet 70 to 136), first entrance of a Catholic priest into Corea, a Chinese called P. 

 Jacques Tsiou. He entered clandestinely at midnight, and for assisting on this occasion, Paul Ioun 

 in the following year was put to death. 



" 1795 A. D." (Maunder), in the beginning of this year, the French armies in general successful 

 on the land had not only repelled invasion, but were in possession of the Austrian Netherlands, Hol- 

 land, part of Germany as far as the Rhine, and Savoy. 



"The same year" (Pauth. 463), arrival at Pekin of an ambassador from the Dutch East India 

 company. An account of the proceedings and journey, is given by Van Braam. 



"The same year" (Nicol.), Fifth partition of Poland. 



"The same year" (Kobell ii.), by A. Sennefelder at Munich first experiments in lithography ; 

 with "Solenhofen or Killheimer" calcareous slate from the neighbourhood. — The material has proved 

 the best anywhere discovered to the present day, and is exported to all parts of the civilized world. 



" In this year" (Winckl.), Santi publishing his Viagg. al Montamiata ; — the third and concluding 

 volume " in 1806." 



Allium album of Italy and Greece. Described by Santi — (Chaub.) ; observed by Sibthorp pi. 

 325 in Italy, and termed "a. lacteum ; " by Chaubard, in the Peloponnesus. 



"In this year" (append. Sibth.), Retz publishing a Second edition of his Flor. Scand. prodr., 

 enumerating Saxifraga triaispidata, Alsine Groenlandka n. 552; — his Flor. oeconon. suec. "in 

 1806;'' Fl. Virgil, "in 1809; " and died "in 1821." 



"In this year" (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), P. P. Lapeyrouse publishing his Flor. pyr. illustr., — 

 the fourth and last volume "in 180T," and his Hist, abreg. plant, pyren. "in 1813." 



" In this year" (Winckl.); Roxburgh publishing his Plants of Coromandel.f — completed "in 1819." 



" 1796 A. D." (Holmes), Tennessee admitted into the Union as the sixteenth State. 



"Feb. 8th, first day" of the Chinese year (Pauth. 4^3), abdication of Kien-loung in favour of 

 his son Kia-king, now three hundred and fourth Chinese emjxror. 



"April" (Maunder), the Anstrians and Piedmontese defeated by Bonaparte ; a young man just 

 appointed commander of the French army in Italv. 



"The same year" (Kobell ii.), in the North Pacific among the Aleutian Islands, rising of a new 

 volcanic island out of the sea. — After a while, it gradually sunk down and disappeared. 



* Yttcta rccuri'ifolia of Carolina and Florida. Introduced "in 1704" into Britain, — and de- 

 scribed by Haworth, and Salisbury par. lond. 31 (Loud, encycl. plant. ) Westward, observed by 

 Leconte in Lower Georgia ; by Nuttall, "in sandy fields, North Carolina." 



f IntHgofera coeruka of Eastern Hindustan. Discovered by Roxburgh, cultivated by him and 

 found to yield quantities of the most beautiful light indigo — (A. Dec, and Drur.). 



Pyrethrum Indkum of Eastern Asia. Observed by Roxburgh iii. p. 436 in Eastern Hindus- 

 tan ; — and at Bombay, by Nimmo (Graham). Farther East, the Indian feverfew is enumerated by 

 Mason v. 432 and 789 as " exotic " in Burmah, " often seen in gardens in " the city of Maulmain. 

 By European colonists, carried to the Mauritius Islands and cultivated in gardens (Boj.) ; and to 

 Europe, Sims bot. mag pi. 1521. 



