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by Prof. Trelease; (2) A Study 0/ i/ie Agaves oft lie United States, by A. 

 Isabel Mulford ; and (3) The Ligulate Wolffias of the United States, by 

 C. H. Thompson. A feature of all these annual reports is the magnifi. 

 cent illustrations. 



In addition to the above there is the report of a speech delivered at 

 the sixth annual banquet, by President Henry Wade Rogers, of the 

 Northwestern University, on " The Value of a Study of Botany," and a 

 catalogue of the Sturtevant Pre-Linnean Library, the greater part of which 

 was presented to the Botanical Garden by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant in 

 1S92. 



One very notable omission from the present volume, which we much 

 regret, is the printing of the annual " flower sermon." Last year it was 

 delivered by the Rt. Rev. W. C. Doane, Bishop of Albany. 



The first annual event provided for in his will by Henry Shaw, the 

 good man who founded this garden for the enlightenment and happiness 

 of his fellow-men, was "The preaching of a sermon on the wisdom and 

 goodness of God as shown in the growth of flowers, fruits, and other 

 productions of the vegetable kingdom." A lovely poem in prose, for the 

 perusal of which by his friends the writer's copy of the 1893 report is in 

 constant use, is a sermon preached by the Rev. Cameron Mann from the 

 text, " Consider the lilies of the field." This sermon, from a literary 

 standpoint, is charming, and certainly helps to carry out the vvise wish of 

 the benevolent founder to inculcate in all a thankful spirit for the many 

 lovely things in the vegetable kingdom which we find strewed with no 

 niggard hand along our walk through life, making our own journey more 

 beautiful and, it is hoped, our friends happier from contact with us. 



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The Crambid.« of North America ; by C H. Fernald, A. M,, Ph. D., 

 Mass. Agr. College. Jan., 1S96. Pp. 81, with six plates. 

 This latest work is characterized by the painstaking study which 

 Prof. Fernald has taught us to expect in his publications. The state- 

 ments are well considered ; the very words carefully chosen, so that there 

 are few writers whom we may so entirely and unhesitatingly trust. Con- 

 scious as I am of my own shortcomings, that attention has been called to 

 the " extreme desirability of verifying my statements when they involve 

 a change in nomenclature or in synonymy," it is like an atonement for 

 my thirty-five years of labour, without any merit of my own, that I 

 reached so unimpeachable an observer as Prof. Fernald a friendly hand 



