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Prof. L. H. BaHey, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Prof. Lester F. 

 Ward, U. S. National Musenm, Washington, D. C; Mr. O. F. Cook, Hunt- 

 ington, New York; Dr. William Wheelock, Columbia College, New York 

 City. 



Each monographer will be responsible for his own matter, thfi) only 

 restrictions placed on contributors being that they conform to a general 

 style and to principles of nomenclature and citation, and that descriptions 

 be extended only to an average limit of a certain number of words, this 

 number to be hereafter determined. The treatment of these matters will be 

 indicated by sample sheets, which will be submitted at an early date. It is 

 expected that an approximately uniform consideration of species can be 

 secured. 



The editors believe that b}' prosecuting the work in the manner above 

 indicated, it will be possible to produce a complete Systematic Botany of 

 the country within fifteen years. They fully realize the impracticability of 

 such a task being accomplished by a few students only, and earnestly 

 desire the aid and support of all American Botanists. They request your 

 co-operation, and ask that j'ou serd a reply to this letter to the under- 

 signed, and will welcome any suggestions that you maybe pleased to make. 



For the Board of Editors, 



N. L. Britton, 



Chairman. 



The above circular was sent to a number of Botanists besides 

 those mentioned in the text. While a "Flora of the United 

 States and British Columbia" is highly desirable, a glance at 

 the names of the proposed monographers gives evidence that if 

 ever accomplished it will be a remarkably uneven work. The 

 qualification for participants seems to be not capacity and attain- 

 ments, but solely agreement with the peculiar nomenclatural 

 predilections of the editors. As they, or some of them, are, 

 however, already at loggerheads over details, the date of the 

 completion of the work is likely to be still farther in the future 

 than the estimated "fifteen j'ears." K. B. 



A NEW SPECIES OF BULIMUEUS. 



BY HENRY HEMPHILL. 



EuLiMELLA occiDENTALis. Shell small, turriculated, white, 

 shining, transparent, consisting of about nine rather flattish 

 convex whorls, with a single fine, revolving, threadlike lirse 



March 12, 1894. 



