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tianae, five of which appeared first in the Bul- 

 letin de I'Herbier Boissier and one in Memoires 

 de I'Herbier Boissier. Previous to the publica- 

 tion of these, some of his descriptions of new 

 species appeared in The Journal of the Linnaean 

 Society, vol. xxiv (1888). He himself was a 

 member of The London Linnaean Society, of the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and of The 

 Torrey Botanical Club of New York. The 

 enumeration of species collected was in part 

 made in collaboration with M. Eugene Autran, 

 Curator of the Boissier Herbarium of Geneva, 

 but he named and described his own new species 

 and varieties. All told, these numbered over 120 

 new species and nearly 300 new varieties of plants 

 in his Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai. Reck- 

 oning the total number of species described in 

 this Flora as 3,500, he was the first to determine, 

 name, and describe more than one-thirtieth. 



Familiarity with the geography and physical 

 characteristics of Syria and Palestine was shown 

 by a paper on The Botanical Geography of Syria 

 and Palestine, read before the Victoria Institute, 

 and published with a map in the Proceedings of 

 the Victoria Institute. In this paper he maps out 

 Syria and Palestine into ten distinct botanical 

 regions, the characteristics and flora of each of 

 which he sets forth. 



In the spring of 1882 he made a trip to Sinai 

 in company with Dr. Henry M. Field, which is 



