282 JVotes. 



L. Robinson, Curator; Henry E. Seaton, Asst. Curator; Merritt 

 L. Fernald and J. A. Allen, Assistants. Much good work may be 

 expected from this group of young and active men, succeeding to 

 the richest herbarium and best botanical library in America, and 

 inheriting from their great predecessors traditions of moderation 

 which may influence the too violent tendencies of nomenclatural 

 reform. 



Mr. William T. Davis, writing in Bull. Torrey Club, xix, 301, 

 about a patch of oaks on Staten Island, names one which he con- 

 siders a hybrid, Qiierais Britto7ii. It will be interesting to observe 

 how persons who act in such wise, propose to distinguish these 

 names from those of valid species. Gardeners, of course, give 

 names to the multitude of hybrids and sports which they produce for 

 trade purposes, but such names are usually of a fanciful form, and 

 botanical science takes little cognizance of them. Our friends, the 

 zoologists, are evidently neglecting their opportunities. How long 

 the army mule, for instance, has led a miserable existence for want 

 of a specific name, yet it is too be feared that if some fervent "dis- 

 ciple " of any eminent zoologist testifies admiration by attaching 

 his name to the long neglected quadruped, the well meant effort 

 will hardly receive the thanks of the complimented. 



Errata ^ — In article on Balanoglossus, Ritter: 



Page 190, line 21, for " flow " read " flows.'' 



Page 197, line 34, for "sink" read "sinks." 



Page 200, for "Fig. 6" read "Fig. 7;" and for "Fig. 7" read 

 "Fig. 6." 



In " List of Abbreviations," for " v. /5. Ventral blood vessel" read 

 " ze'. j-. Water vesicle." 



On Plate xxii, Fig. 5, for " n. .y. " read '' w. s.'' 



