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to be without them for they really illustrate every important fea- 

 ture of the reproductive machinery of the alga?. Either set costs 

 $3.00, both together $5.00, with full explanatory text. 



The writer confesses a delinquency which he wishes to cor- 

 rect both in himself and his botanical friends. We have an Associa- 

 tion known as the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, where workers in all departments of science are in the habit 

 of meeting to have most pleasant and profitable intercourse^ Zoolo- 

 gists, geologists, chemists and mathematicians flock to it in great 

 numbers, but botanists are both few in number and modest in spirit. 

 Where are the possessors of those long lists of names which fill page 

 after page of our directories? There is now a section of biology 

 where botany will have a fair chance, and botanists should avail 

 themselves of this opportunity of becoming acquainted with each 

 other. The next meeting will be held in Montreal, August 23d, as 

 attractive a place for meeting as could well be imagined. The writer 

 expects to be there, he is ashamed to say for the first time, and 

 hopes to make hosts of botanical acquaintances. He does not offer 

 his presence as an inducement for any one to attend, but simply to 

 assure his readers that he intends to follow his own advice. Let us 

 begin thus early to lay our plans for making the botanical subsec- 

 tion a very prominent feature of the next meeting. Go prepared 

 not only to see something but to say something. 



Charles Robert Darwin died April 20, 1882. Just as we go 

 to press this telegram has been received from London, accompani- 

 ed by no particulars. He was born February 12, 1809, and the his- 

 tory of his long life is the common property of all intelligent peo- 

 ple. Seldom has there been a life more busy or more fruitful, for it 

 must be conceded that his powers of observation were phenomenal. 

 His name has become so much a part of modern biology that it 

 can never cease to be a familiar one. A great "path-breaker," manj- 

 have followed in his footsteps and he had the good fortune to live 

 long enough to see his work properly appreciated. It is almost 

 needless to name his contributions to botany, for his books are in 

 every library. Those with botanical subjects are as follows: "Fer- 

 tilization of Orchids," "Insectivorous Plants," "Climbing Plants," 

 "The Effect of Cross- and Self-Fertilization in the Vegetable King- 

 dom," and "Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the same Spe- 

 cies." His last book was upon the "Effect of the Earth-Worm on 

 Vegetable Mould." 



We may expect a notice in some degree worthy of the man 

 from the pen of him who of all in this country knew him best, and 

 with whom his name is so pleasantly associated in that delightful 

 book, "Darwiniana." 



Botanical Necrology for 1880, 1881 and thus far in 1882, as 

 given in the American Journal of Science for April includes the fol- 

 lowing names: 



