Manual of the Mosses of North America (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Gray, who ardently desired that these valuable materials should be used in continuation of the plan begun by the donor, it was arranged that I should undertake the work in connection with Mr. Thomas P. James, of Cambridge, who would make the microscopical analyses of such species as had not yet been satisfactorily examined, and prepare sketches from which descriptions could be drawn.

As large numbers of specimens and even whole collections were sent to us for determination, the work progressed slowly, but it was drawing toward completion when two years ago Mr. James was suddenly called away by death.

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In 1848 William S. Sullivant published, in the first edition of Grays Manual of Botany, descriptions of two hundred and five species of Mosses and sixty-six of Hepaticæ. In the second edition of the same Manual, published in 1856, four hundred and ten species of Mosses and one hundred and seven of Hepaticæ were described by him, with the addition of eight fine plates for the illustration of the more important genera. This second edition becoming soon exhausted, Mr. Sullivant, urged, by the friends of American botany to publish, in a separate volume, a Manual of American Mosses, decided to begin the preparation of such a work in connection with the present writer, who had been since 1848 his constant assistant in bryological research. A large amount of material had been collected, the new mosses continually received had been examined and described, and much preparatory labor had thus been done when, in 1872, my sight partially failed me, and a few months later Sullivant's noble career was closed by death.

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