OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 1069 



reduced to " about one hundred and fifty " persons ; who hold " no communication with Jews, Chris- 

 tians, or Mahommedans," and continue to " annually offer up a sheep on Mount Garazim : " the 

 "ornamental part" of the ruins at Balbeck, is pronounced by him "heavy, overloaded, and some in 

 a very barbarous taste," p. 346. 



"Sept. 15th" (Maunder), bloodless uprising in Greece : effecting the removal of foreigners from 

 high official station. 



" In this year" (A. Dec. g. plant. 672, and Winckl.), Babington publishing his Manual of British 

 botany.* 



" 1844 A. D." (Dallet ii. 266), Andre" Kim from China travelling across Mandshuria to the North- 

 ern frontier of Corea. He ascertained that the Mandshus extend very little beyond " Lat. 46°," and 

 are bounded on the North by two small States of Ou-kin, and Tu-pi-latse or Fish-skin Tartars; on 

 the West, by the river Soungari and the Stone barrier. 



" In this year" (title-page and pref.), W. Smith publishing his Diet. Greek and Roman Biogr., 

 — completed in " 1849." 



" In this year " (Winckl.), Louis Pfeiffer publishing on the plants of Hesse in Germany ; f — "in 

 1847," his Flor. niederhess. 



" 1845 A. D." (Inman), by act of Congress, Texas annexed to the Union as a State: the territories 

 of Florida and Iowa, also admitted as States. — The act was not accepted by the people of Iowa, 

 until " 1849." 



" In this year" (Winckl.), C. L. Gay publishing his Hist, fisic. Chile. 



" In this year " (Pritzel), after his Lasiopetal. monogr. "in 1821," and other memoirs down to 

 " 1842," Jacques Gay publishing his Holost. monogr. 



" In this year" (Winckl.), F. I. Ruprecht publishing his Flores Samojed. 



" Dec. 8th " (Humb. cosm. iv.), after an interval of " thirty-eight" years without planetary dis- 

 coveries, a fifth asteroid found by Hencke, and named Astrea. 



" 1846 A. D." (Inman), through the action of the U. S. government, our first aggressive foreign 

 war. Against Mexico ; the collision between military forces taking place " May 7th " at Palo Alto, 

 East of the Rio Grande. 



"Sept. 23d" (Humb. cosm. iv.), the planet Neptune discovered by Galle, whose attention had 

 been directed to its vicinity by the calculations of Leverrier. — A satellite was discovered by Lassell 

 as early as " Aug. 6th, 1847." 



" Sept, 30th," in Boston, W. T. G. Morton dentist, having a refractory patient, called on Charles 

 T. Jackson physician and chemist, and was advised to try ether — (Atlant. monthly, 1868). The 

 incident led to the demonstration, that inhaling ether induces insensibility to pain during surgical 

 operations. Verified shortly afterwards at the Massachusetts hospital. 



"In this year" (Winckl.), after his Outlines geogr. distr. Brit, plants, H. C. Watson publishing 

 his Cybele Britan. 



" 1848 A. D." (Inman), the territory of Wisconsin admitted into the Union as a State. 



"In this year" (dedicat), A. Gray publishing his flor. Northern U. States, enumerating Nas- 

 turtium lacustre. 



" 1849 A. D." (Troyon 85), by Boucher de Perthes, publication of his discovery near Abbeville 

 in France of ancient relics ; some of them belonging to the Stone period. 



" 1850, Aug. 26th " (Inman), passage by the U. S. congress of a fugitive slave law : and " Sept. 

 7th," California admitted into the Union as a State. 



" 1851 A. D." (title-page), Rev. Francis Mason at Tavoy publishing his flor. Burman. 



" In this year" (Mann), Remy visiting the Hawaiian Islands. — He remained until " 1855." 



"In this year" (Winckl.), after his revis. Anemon. "in 1842," Pritzel publishing his Thesaurus 

 lit. botan. 



" 1852, Feb. 1 2th " (Mason iii. 61), Second English war with Burmah. — Ending "June 20th, 1853" 

 in the deposition of the reigning monarch ; the East India Company virtually acquiring control of the 

 country ; though a native king remains on the throne. 



"In the winter of 1853 to 1854" (Troyon pref.), on the margin of Lake Zurich, discovery by 

 Ferd. Keller of the remains of a lacustrine village belonging to prehistoric times, to the Stone period. 



* CuscHta trifolii of .... Observed in Britain and distinguished by Babington ; — but accord- 

 ing to Bromfield iii. 563 seems adventive, multiplying at times and becoming scarce, as though liable 

 to disappear (A. Dec). 



f Cuscuta Hassiaca of Eastern Europe. A species of dodder observed in Hesse and distin- 

 guished by Pfeiffer. — In Britain, introduced among plants raised for cattle-feed, but continues con- 

 fined to cultivated or artificial meads (A. Dec). 



