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" In this year " (A. Dec. p. 716), after his first edition in " 1826," Darlington publishing a second 

 edition of his Flor. W. Chest., enumerating Euphorbia Darlingtonii. 



In this year, Engelmann in Northeast America, meeting with Isoetes riparia. 



"The same year" (Hale ethnogr. Expl. Exp. p. 190), at Banabe or Ascension Island, "a man 

 who had been drifted thither in a canoe " from " Maraki " (one of the Tarawan coral-islands) informed 

 Maio-ret, That "his people were accustomed to make a sweet drink called takarave, unlike any thing 

 to be found at Ascension." This, according to Hale, "is a beverage made of the sweet juice drawn 

 from the spathe of the cocoa-nut tree." 



" In this year " (title-page), Blanco publishing at Manila his Flor. Filipin. 



" In this year " (Winckf ), Edmond Boissier travelling in Southern Spain. — He published his 

 Plant. Nov. "in 1838," and Voyage Botan. "in 1839-45." 



" 1838, June 20th" (second edit. pref. and 354), end of the chronicle of N. Harris Nicolas. 



" In this year " (Pritzel), Ramon de la Sagra publishing the Botanical part of his Hist. cub. : — 

 it was left incomplete by A Richard "in 1842." 



" In this year" (title-page and pref.), Lindley publishing his Flor. Med. 



"1839 A. D." (Clot-Bey and others), Mahmood II. succeeded by Abd-el-Medjid, thirty-second 

 Turkish sultan. 



" The same year "(....), the art of photography discovered by Daguerre. — Specimens of the 

 art, " daguerrotypes," first seen by myself on the arrival of the Yinccnnes at Singapore. 



"In this \ear" (Dallet ii. 131), Fourth persecution of Christians in Corea. 



"In this year" (YVinckl.), A. H. R. < iiisebach publishing his monogr. Gentian., and visiting 

 Roumelia and Bithynia as far as Broussa. — He published his Spic. flor. Rumel. "in 1S43-5." 



Liinnaiitheiuum Forbesiamtm of Mozambique. Received by Grisebach from Mozambique, and 

 from Ceylon — (A. Dec). 



"In this year" (Pref.), Graham publishing his Plants of Bombay. He died "May 28th," and 

 from the '-two hundredth page " the publication was completed by Nimmo. 



" 1840 A. D." (Kobell iv.), the art of dcctrotyping discovered by Jacobi. 



"In this year" (A. Dec. Soo, and Winckl.), after residing at Montpelier "in 1827," Moquin- 

 Tandon publishing his monogr. Chenopod. 



" 1841 A. D." (Brendel in Am. Nat. 1870), Liebmann arriving in Mexico, meeting with Quercus 

 Oaxacana. — He remained until "1S43." 



In this year (see A. Gray man. 2d ed. 176), Sullivant at Columbus on the Ohio, meeting with 

 Asclepias Sullwauti, Ehocharis compressa, Carcx Sullivanti, A rabis patens. 



"1842 A. D." (Dallet ii. 256), the Opium war carried on by the English against China. The 

 city of Nang-king was captured, and by the treaty of " Au^. 29th" the isle of Hong-kong ceded. 

 The Chinese for the first time undergoing humiliation before Europeans. 



" In this year " (Pritzebj, Loddiges and sons publishing the Orchideaj in their collection, " 1654 

 species." 



"December" (Bonom. Nin. i. 2), excavations on the site of Nineveh commenced by Botta ; ap- 

 pointed by the French government consular agent at Mosul.* 



" 1S43, May 19th," and " about the same time " that the site of Lake Moeris was discovered by 

 Linant, Lepsius (eg. and sin. p. 14) encamped among the ruins of the Labyrinth. Continuing up 

 the Nile, Lepsius 268 ascertained, that "a great part of the population of Thebes still" remains Cop- 

 tic. Ascending beyond PhiLe, he describes Korusco as "an Arabian place in the centre of the land 

 nf Nubians," and inhabited by " Ababde " (judging apparently by the language, the Abahdch being 

 an Ethiopian tribe speaking the Arabic language), p. 127. The Xitbiau language is described by 

 him as having " no accordance " with the Egyptian, nor with Semitic languages, in the "grammatical 

 iorms " and "radical words : " having terms for " God, spirit, slave," but the numbers above twenty 

 are borrowed from the Arabic ; as also the terms for " time, year, month, dav, hour, servant, friend, 

 enemy, temple, to pray, believe, read, and every thing connected with house-building and navigation," 

 p. 128. — In Upper Nubia, Taiba was found inhabited only by Fukara, a kind of priest, who read, 

 write, and the chief is believed in like a prophet; they call themselves " Arakin," and are probably 

 of "Arab race," p. 187. The .Yuba languages (spoken by a Negro tribe) are described as "pardy 

 related to the Berber," p. 209. But the Kongara language of Dar Fur was "quite different from the 

 Nubian," and presented "strong analogy with South African languages" (belongs therefore to the 

 Negro class of languages), p. 234. Returning down the Nile and proceeding Eastward to Sinai and 

 Palestine, Lepsius found "the pascha of Jerusalem at war with Hebron," p. 334: the Sauiariaiis 



* Euphorbia Bojeri of Madagascar. An ornamental scarlet-flowered species, transported to 

 Europe, and described by Hooker. — By European colonists also, introduced into the gardens of 

 Burmah, where it has become frequent (Mason v. 421 and 762). 



