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Pàgina 142 - Rept. of Regents. Albany, 1864. Plants found in Rochester, Caledonia and Bergen are mentioned. 1864-1894. — Annual Reports of the New York State Museum of Natural History. Albany, 1864-1894. Frequent mention is made of plants of this vicinity, with names of collectors, donors of specimens, etc., etc. 1864. — Catalogue of Plants found in Oneida County and Vicinity. By John A. Paine, Jr. Rept. of Regents. Albany, 1865. Plants found in Monroe county are frequently mentioned. 1867. — Gray's Manual...
Pàgina 137 - AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOIL, Growing Timber, and other productions of the lands in the countries situated in the back parts of the states of New- York and Pennsylvania, in North America ; and particularly the lands in the county of ONTARIO, known by the name of THE GENESEE TRACT, lately located, and now in the progress of being settled.
Pàgina 184 - Dr. Dewey was an early and a frequent contributor to this Journal upon several subjects, but especially upon that with which his name is inseparably connected — the Carices of North America. His Caricography, commenced in 1824, was continued year after year with few breaks, down to the close of 1866, when it terminated with a general index to species. It is not for us to speak particularly of the merits of this elaborate monograph, patiently prosecuted through more than forty years.
Pàgina 136 - Description of the settlement of the Genesee country, in the State of New York, in a series of letters from a gentleman to his friend.
Pàgina 145 - Bui, 8:45-47. 1881 A List of the Indigenous Ferns of the Vicinity of Rochester, with Notes. Charles W. Seelye. Rochester Academy of Science Proc., i :i86-97. 1891. Reprinted, with the addition of cultural notes, in Annual Report of the New York State Agricultural Society, 51:472-91. 1892 Report of the Botanical Section, Rochester Academy of Sciences (on records for plants in the vicinity...
Pàgina 137 - Account of the Soil, Growing Timber, and other productions of the land in the countries situated in the back parts of the States of New York and Pennsylvania, in North America ; and particularly the lands in the County of Ontario, known by the name of the Genesee Tract, lately located, and now in the progress of being settled. (Report of the Deputy Marshal of New York on the preemption lands in the County of Ontario, December, 1800.) Doc. Hist. State of New York, Vol. II. Albany, 1849. Among the...
Pàgina 229 - This is to be expected, as the other method gave equal weight to each political division, and these divisions are generally smaller in the regions of greater rainfall. To get some conception of this enormous mass of water we may compare it with the contents of the Great Lakes, and an approximate comparison is near enough. Lake Ontario is about 200 miles long and 70 broad, and its average depth is about 40 fathoms. It, therefore, contains about 636 cubic miles of water. The annual rainfall would fill...
Pàgina 135 - ... mountains, it is found two or three degrees further to the north, and it abounds in all the valleys of the Alleghany chain. The dimensions it attains in its native country vary according to the nature of the soil and the climate. In Virginia and Kentucky it grows to the largest size, sometimes as much as seventy or eighty feet in height, and three or four feet in diameter; but in parts of the country less favourable to its growth, it rarely exceeds one-half that size. The foliage of the Acacia...
Pàgina 138 - Travels in Canada and the United States in 1816 and 1817. By Lieutenant Francis Hall, Light Dragoons, HP, 1818. 2. Journal of Travels in the United States of North America and in Lower Canada, performed in the Year 1817, etc.
Pàgina 141 - Tree", under which the first treaty was signed between the Indians and the first settlers of Geneseo. At the time of writing, 1848, the old tree was healthy and green. He also speaks of other magnificent specimens of oak and elm trees to be seen in the Meadow Park, and of the remains of a former rival of the