[410] A comedy in three acts, interspersed with songs; words by Michel Jean Sedaine (1719-1797).—B.
[411] A comic opera in one act, words and the greater part of the music by Jean Cazotte (1720-1792).—B.
[412] "Fall rain, or fell snow, or blow wind,
To shorten long nights we've a mind." —T.
[413] Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), author of an early classification of botanical genera and species.—T.
[414] Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782), Inspector-General of the Navy, and an eminent agricultural and arboricultural expert.—T.
[415] Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777), the most learned member of a family comprising no less than four distinguished botanists.—T.
[416] Nehemiah Grew (circa 1628-1711), author of the Anatomy of Plants, and an early Fellow of the Royal Society (1673).—T.
[417] Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): the work referred to is his Dictionnaire botanique.—T.
[418] Charles Linnæus (1707-1778), the great Swedish botanist.—T.
[419] George Washington (1732-1799), first President of the United States (1789-1793 and 1793-1797).—T.