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Note changing the Name Oligonema to Golionema. Botanical Gazette, 



Vol. XVI. p. 267, 1891. 

 Pentstemon Haydeni, n. sp. Botanical Gazette, Vol. XVI. p. 311, 1891. 

 Atriplex corrugata, n. sp., and Notes on Ranunculus glaberrimus, Hook. 



and Ranunculus Macauleyi, (iray. Botanical Gazette, Vol. XVI. 



pp. 345-346, 1891. 

 A New Astragalus. Zoe, Vol. III. p. 52. San Francisco, April, 1892. 

 On Nomenclature. (In press.) Botanical Gazette, Vol. XVII., June, 



1892. 

 Dr. Watson was engaged at the time of his death in the continuation of 



the Synoptical Flora of North America. 



ASSOCIATE FELLOWS. 

 GEORGE W. CULLUM. 



General George "VV. Culluji was born in the city of New 

 York on the 25th of February, 1809. While he was quite young his 

 family removed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he received an 

 excellent preparatory education which well fitted him for admission to 

 the Military Academy at West Point. He was entered, July 1, 1829, 

 and graduated third in his class of forty-three members, July 1, 1833. 

 He was then promoted in the army to Brevet Second Lieutenant, 

 Corps of Engineers, in which corps he was further promoted to 

 Second Lieutenant, April 20, 1836; Captain, July 7, 1838; Major, 

 August 6, 1861; Lieutenant Colonel, March 3, 1863; and Colonel, 

 March 7, 1867. He was appointed Brigadier General of United 

 States Volunteers, November 1, 1861, and received the brevet rank of 

 Major General, U. S. Army, March 13, 1865, in recognition of his ser- 

 vices during the Rebellion. July 13, 1874, he was retired from active 

 service according to law, being over the age of sixty-two years. 



General Cullum served actively over forty years as a constructor of 

 military works and light-houses, as commander of Engineer troops, 

 as Instructor and Superintendent of the United States Military Acad- 

 emy at West Point, as Aide de Camp and Chief of Staff to the Gen- 

 eral in Chief of the Army, and as member of various boards to devise 

 seacoast and other fortifications, river and harbor improvements, etc. 



He was distinguished as an author of numerous military, scientific, 

 historical, and biographical works, and was a leading spirit in several 

 scientific societies. 



