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time, and more than any person before him had 
done. He has published his discoveries* of several 
mew species of Stapelia. 
Samuel Elias Bridel was born November 28, 
1763, at Crassier, a small village in the canton of 
Bern. He went to Paris, and travelled through the 
nountains of Switzerland to collect plants, espe- 
cially mosses. Mr Bridel resides at present at Go- 
tha in Saxony. We are indebted to him for a com- 
plete history of the musci frondosi, which he still con- 
ane ‘lie 
EKugenius Johann Ghiictonh Esper, Professor at 
paMBeN. was born at Wundsiedel, June 25, 1742 
Fis merit is very great in Zoology and Entomology, 
as appears by his writings on the Papiliones of Hu- 
rope, and on Zoophyta. He has commenced a com- 
plete 
quam Aub aetre fungorum, exhibitae a C. Hl. Persoon. Pars 
prima. Lipsiae. 1796. 8vo. with 6 coloured plates. 
* Stapeliae novae, or a collection of several new species of: 
that genus discovered in the interior parts of Africa, by 
Francis Messon. Lond. 1795+ fol. with 41 neatly coloured 
plates. Each plate contains a new species. During his tra- 
vels in the interior of Africa he took up those succulent 
plants out of the soil with their root, and cultivated them in 
his garden at Cape Town, and thus. had an opportunity of 
seeing many flowers which escape travellers who make hasty 
jour neys over a country. 
+} Muscologia recentiorum s. Analysis, historia, et descriptio, 
methodica omnium muscorum frondosorum hucusque cognitor- 
um, ad normam Hedwigii, aS. E. Bridel. Gothae. ‘Tom I. 
1797. Il. Pars I. 1798. 4. . The first volume contains the his- 
tory of the musci frondosi, the discovery of the order, of the 
genera, and their varieties. The first part of the second vo- 
lume. 
