William Starling Sullivant, an American botanist, born at Franklinton, near the site of Columbus O., Jan. 15, 1803, died in Columbus, April 30, 1873. He graduated at Yale college in 1823, and settled in Columbus as a surveyor. In 1840 he published a "Catalogue of Plants, Native or Naturalized in the Vicinity of Columbus, Ohio," and in 1842 an article on three new plants discovered in that district. He made a journey in 1843 from Maryland to Georgia, and published "Musci Alleghanien-ses " (55 sets, of 2 vols. 4to each, 1845; new ed., printed privately, 1855). He wrote papers on bryology and hepaticology for the " Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (1846-9), and contributed the "Musci and Hepatica) of the United States East of the Mississippi River" to the second edition of Gray's "Manual of Botany" (185G); this was afterward published separately. A second volume of this, his most important work, has appeared since his death. Musci Boreali-Ameri-cani, consisting of 350 species and varieties of dried mosses, was the joint work of himself and hh associate L. Lesquereux (1856). He also published "Mosses brought home by Wilkes's Exploring Expedition, 1838-'42 " (with 26 fol. plates, 1859); " Mosses and Hepaticae collected mostly in Japan" (with 18 4to plates, 1860); Musci Oubenses (1861); and Icones Muscorum (with 129 plates, 1864). The genus Sullivantia was founded by Torrey and Gray upon a rare plant of the saxifrage family discovered by him.