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botanist is published in the Pharmaceutische Rundschau, Feb, 
1887. 
Solanum Carolinense. L. have a specimen of it in my herba- 
rium collected at Flatbush, Long Island, July 28th, 1865, by the 
late Wm. H. Leggett. E. S. MILLER, Wading River. 
Diatom Slides. It may be of interest to some of our readers 
who are interested in diatoms, to know that Miss M. A. Booth, 
of Longmeadow, Mass., makes a specialty of preparing microscop- 
ical slides of named species as well as of general deposits. These 
slides are well-mounted and reliably named, and those who are 
seeking certain species to complete collections will do well to send 
for her list. CHK. 
At the Annual Reception of the Am. Museum of Nat. Hist. 
held Tuesday, May roth, there were placed on exhibition a series 
of the nests, eggs, and mounted specimens of American birds. 
Botanically, the mounting is exceedingly interesting, for all the 
details of the surroundings are so truthfully reproduced that it is 
possible to give the specific names of the plants which are imi- 
tated, so naturally are they made. The lady who did this work 
is Mrs. Mogridge, who has done the modeling of flowers for 
South Kensington Museum, and whose services have been se- 
cured for the Nat. Hist. Museum by the liberality of Mrs. Rob- 
ert L. Stuart. All lovers of nature and art should see these 
cases of American birds. , 
Proceedings of the Club. 
The regular monthly meeting was held May roth, the Pres- 
ident in the Chair, and twenty-five persons present. 
Dr. V. Harvard, U. S. A., Rev. R. E. Schuh, and Mr. W. R. 
Mitchell were elected active members. 
: Mrs. Mogridge, British Museum of Natural History, Miss 
Lydia Shattuck, South Hadley, Mass., and R. S. Williams, of 
Great Falls, Montana, were elected corresponding members. 
The Herbarium Committee was requested to prepare a list of 
the rarer and more interesting plants of the vicinity, to be collected 
and distributed to the members of the Botanical Club of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science during 
