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University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Thomas Meehan 

 has accepted a similar position in the Agricultural College 

 of Pennsylvania. W. R. Dudley, of Cornell, has been pro- 

 moted to the position of Assistant Professor of Botany ; 

 R. W. Greenleaf has been appointed Assistant in Botany at 

 Harvard, and B. M. Watson, Jr., Instructor in Horticulture 

 at the Bussey Institution. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Classification of Palms. 



In the JBotanische Zeitung, Dr. O. Drude proposes a modified 

 classification of the palms, the basis of which is the separa- 

 tion of the New and Old World forms, based upon the facts 

 that no species of palm is indigenous both in America and 

 the Old World; no genus is common to both worlds; and 

 even the tribes are almost limited by the same laws of dis- 

 tribution. The arrangement is briefly as follows: 



1. Calamece. Tropical Africa, Asia up to 30 N. lat., the 

 Suncla Isles, and Australia to 30 S. lat. 



2. Maphiece. Equatorial Africa, Madagascar, Mascarenes, 

 and Polynesia. 



3. Mauritiem. Tropical America from 10 N. to 15 S. lat. 



4. Borassince. Africa, Mascarenes, Seychelles, and West- 

 ern Asia to 30 ]ST. lat. 



5. Cocoinece. America, 23 N". to 34 S. lat. 



6. Arecinece. All around the world from 30 1ST. to 42 S. 

 lat. 



7. Chamcedorinece. America, 25 N. to 20 S. lat. ; Mada- 

 gascar, Mascarenes, and Seychelles. 



8. Iriartece. America from 15 N. to 20 S. lat. 



9. Caryotinece. Asia to 30 N. lat., Sunda Isles, Austra- 

 lia to 17 S. lat. 



10. CoryphineoB. All around the world from 40 N. to 

 35 S. lat. 



Roots of the Banian Tree. 



The most remarkable evidence of the extraordinary power 

 of the pendent roots of the banian has been lately exhibited 

 in the celebrated temple of Juggernauth. The great Hindoo 

 temple of Juggernauth is notorious throughout the world. 

 Built at a cost of half a million sterling, "it is black with age. 



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