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MYRSINACEAE, PRIMULACEAE, PLUMBAGINACEAE,. SAPOTACEAE, EBENACEAE, SYM- 
PLOCACEAE, STYRACACEAE, OLEACEAE, LOGANIACEAE: Mr. John K. Small, 
Columbia College. 
GENTIANACEAE: Mr. Chas, L. Pollard, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
BORAGINACEAE: Prof, Edward L. Greene, University of California, 
VERBENACEAE: Prof, A. S. Hitchcock. . 
SOLANACEAE, SCROPULARIACEAE: President Coulter. 
CICHORIACEAE, COMPOSITAE: Prof. Greene (Aster and Solidago by Prof. Thos. C. 
Porter, Lafayette College, Easton, Penn.). 
Botanical Notes. 
A Redfield Memorial Herbarium Fund. It has been decided 
that no better monument to the memory of John H. Redfield 
could be erected than to arrange for completing and caring for the 
work he loved, and to which he gave freely so many years of his 
life—namely, the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 
- Mainly through his disinterested labors, it stands to-day scarcely 
second to any in the United States, containing, besides many un- 
named, over thirty-five thousand named species of flowering plants 
and ferns, the half of which have been verified and fastened down. 
No one can probably be found to give the years of time he so 
freely gave. In order to carry on the work, and add to the col- 
lection, as exploring expeditions afford the opportunity, it has 
been proposed to establish a fund for its maintainance. 
Mr. Redfield’s will provides that his herbarium, minerals, 
shells and scientific works shall be sold to help the Herbarium— 
thus furnishing a nucleus for the proposed fund. It is in mind to 
raise $20,000, but the interest of any sum that may be contributed 
can at once be made available. Statements will be furnished from 
time to time to contributors, keeping them informed of the pro- 
gress of the contributions. Checks may be made payable to the 
order of Thomas Meehan, Director, or Stewardson Brown, Treas- 
urer, and mailed to either at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 
Nineteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia. 
Announcement of the next Meeting of the American Microscopical 
Society. The next meeting of the American Microscopical Society 
will be held at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N. Y., August 21, 22 
and 23, 1895, that is the week previous to the meeting of the 
