We have the pleasure to announce, that an American Geological Society has been recently organized by an association of gentlemen, residing in various parts of the United States. An Act of Incorporation, conferring the necessary powers, has been granted by the Legislature of Connecticut, and farther accounts of the plan and progress of the Society may be expected in future numbers of this work.
FOOTNOTES:
[47] The proper name of these prairies, and of one of the places where they are found, being illegible in the MS, we were obliged to omit those names; we believe however that the sense is not injured.—Editor.
[48] Former orthography, Toghconnuck and Toghconnuc. That of the text deviates farther from the Indian, but is later and preferable.
[50] If this memoir should ever meet the eye of this amiable man, I trust he will excuse the notice to which his labours so justly entitle him. To him we are indebted for a complete science of crystallography, and for having determined the existence and limit of species, which mineralogists had not obtained, and chemists could not determine. He has devoted a long life to the improvement of science, and it is his praise, that he has preserved the meekness of religion amidst the most flattering success. Our scientific countrymen, who have visited Paris, have been particularly indebted to him; and this notice is, in their behalf, both the tribute of justice and gratitude.
[51] Mr. Nuttall will excuse me for retaining my own specific name. His knowledge of this plant was derived from my Herbarium, where he found it under the name of tripsacum cylindricum, Mich? Although it can hardly be the plant of Michaux, it was so considered by the late Dr. Muhlenberg, when specimens were first communicated to him. It remains under this name in his Herbarium, but is not included in his work on the grasses. He left it for me to describe along with other new and doubtful plants from the south.
[52] This is the specific name found in my Herbarium by Mr. Nuttall, under which it had been previously transmitted to Mr. Elliott. Vid. Nuttall's North American Genera, v. I. p. 83.
[53] Mr. Nuttall was probably deceived from having examined the spikes before they were fully evolved.