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- shores of Labrador. So, too, of mosses, which a good authority 
of that day was eager to receive from me and name. And nota 
few were the new species of fungi found among my gatherings by 
Dr. Peck. To search out these classes of plants through the 
winter woodlands, when the fall of the leaves of other plants had 
made them conspicuous, afforded many a day of rarest pleasure. 
It were going beyond the limits of my subject to tell of ex- 
tended trips made during these years to the White Mountains, to 
join there the Faxons, till we became as familiar with those tem- 
pest-swept heights as with our native fields. Or to tell of boat 
journeys and the ample fruits of such, made in three successive 
years to the cold fir-set shores of the Lower St. Lawrence; to the 
Saguenay, low between its palisades of giant cliffs, and through 
the lone lakes and unbroken forests of the St. Francis to the St. 
John of northern Maine. Experiences of wild life calculated to 
fill one with large thoughts, to raise him above fear and to make 
the modern world of conventions and fads show paltry. 
In the fall of 1880, when our thorough survey of these re- 
gions was but half completed, I was sent away on forestry service 
to distant States, and I have ever since wandered further and 
further on. But year by year I have learned with joy and pride 
of the achievements since made in this field of my youthful love 
by you, my associates, who began better prepared than I did (for 
I was only the first available man). Yet share the secret of suc- 
cess of an old collector, quit the broad plain of dull sameness, 
seek out every possible situation of exceptional character, and 
look to find amidst peculiar conditions rare and localized plants. 
Reviews. 
Cytologische Studien aus dem Bonner botanischen Institut. Jahr- 
bicher fiir wissenschaftliche Botanik, 30: Heft 2 and 3. 
In this collection of papers by Strasburger and his students a 
powerful impetus has been given to botanical cytology. Through 
their efforts mitosis in a large number of plant forms is made : 
known, in some cases for the first time. The groups studied in- 
clude fungi (Peziza, Erysiphe by Harper, and Basidiobolus ranarum 
