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Prof. Coulter, of Crawfordsville, Ind., who are preparing to address the au- 

 thorities at Washington upon the subject. 



Mr. A. P. Morgan has published the third installment of his Mycologic 

 Flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio. The great genus Agaricus having been dis- 

 posed of, the present pamphlet begins with Coprinus and ends with Lenzites. 

 Two colored plates illustrate Mr. Morgan's new species, Coprinus squamoms and 

 Sygrophorus Laura. We also note as new Russula incarnata, Marasmius fn.gineus> 

 and M. capillaris. Of the 96 species described, Mr. Chas. Peck is responsible 

 for 12. 



The American Journal of Science seems to have had only its geologist 

 at Minneapolis, and the report of the meeting, under the head of " Miscellane- 

 ous Scientific Intelligence," might as well have been included under " Geol- 

 ogy." The statement that the " sections which had the largest number of pa- 

 pers were the geological and archa-ological," will not be sustained by the facts. 

 The Geological section had 36 papers, Biology had 30, and Anthropology 25. 

 The three papers of Prof. Cope, included in the report under the section of Ge- 

 ology, were referred to the section of Biology and read there. 



The translation of Prof. Hermann Midler's " Die Befruchtung der Blu- 

 men (lurch Insekten," by Mr. D'Arcy Thompson, of Cambridge, England, is 

 not only good service to the English speaking botanist who does not read Ger- 

 man, but also to the many who do. The arrangement of the species in the 

 translation is according to the system of Bentham & Hooker, instead of the 

 German classification of the original. The preface is by Mr. Darwin, and is 

 one of his last writings. The book is published by Macmillan & Co. 



As we go to press we learn of the death of Dr. Muller, which occurred at 

 Prad, in Tyrol, August 25. In him the world loses probably its chief authority 

 in that department of natural history which deals with the mutual relations of 

 insects and flowers. His works are vast storehouses of information, and will 

 most probably always continue to be the principal source of information in 

 their department. Dr. Gray says of him, in the October Am. Jour. Sci., " By his 

 most laborious and patient observations, by his great acuteness in interpreta- 

 tion and research, and by his studies of the modifications of insects in relation 

 to flowers, no less than those of flowers to insects, he had placed himself at the 

 head of this curious branch of biology, which was initiated by his countryman, 

 Christian Conrad Sprengel, about one hundred years ago, resuscitated and more 

 broadly based upon "the Knight-Darwin law," and the lead in which, since 

 Darwin's death, is restored to Germany mainly by the researches of Hildebrand 

 and Hermann Miiller. 



In the October Naturalist Prof. Bessey gives the section divisions and 

 principal synomymy of Lojacono's Revision of the N. Am. Trifolii, as pub- 

 lished in the April number of Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano. We notice that 

 Dr. Gray and Mr. Watson are each honored with a new California species, both 

 cases being varieties raised to specific rank. 



In Hiram Sibley's Grain and Farm Seeds Manual, Dr. E. L. Sturtevant 

 gives interesting histories of Indian corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat 



