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circonstances. Les fruits sont petits mais tres nombreux ; excellents, 

 accomraodes de diverses luauieres." He also included seeds of 

 Schinus terebinthifolius "bel arbre du Bre'sil," Zornia diphylla "du 

 Bresil, leguniineuse fourragere," and Pittosporum tenuifollum 

 of New Zealand. 



It is to Mons. Naudin that we owe the description and distribu- 

 tion of Iris pabularia, the "Kriahum" of the inhabitants of 

 Cashmir, who consider it a good forage .plant. 



His interesting and valuable letters will be much missed by his 

 many correspondents. — J. Burtt Davy. 



NEWS NOTES AND CURRENT COMMENT. 



The Yale Corporation, at a recent meeting, voted that the 

 chair of botany held by the late Prof. Daniel C. Eaton until his 

 death, should, hereafter, be known as the Eaton Professorship of 

 Botany. It may be recalled that this professorship was founded 

 and endowed b}' a relative and by friends of Prof. Eaton in the 

 year 1864, although it lias never been distinguished by a name. 

 The extensive and valuable botanical library and herbarium which 

 Eaton accumulated have been donated to the University by his 

 family, and Mrs. Eaton has placed in the botanical laboratories a 

 bronze tablet to her husband's memory, and, in addition, has founded 

 a graduate scliolarship in botany. 



The disaffected, who complain of the monotonous cluu'acter of 

 the papers in the Bulletin of the Torrey Club, should forthwith con- 

 sult the cover of the January issue of that publication, and observe 

 that the title of the paper of Prof Aven Nelson, of the Rocky 

 Mountain Region, lends a peculiar diversity to the table of contents. 

 It is a serious hope that Prof Nelson's products are, unlike the pre- 

 vailing cut-up, or, as we would now say, tailored species, of sufficiently 

 ample dimensions to be of some service. Doubtless the rigid finger 

 of blame is to be leveled at the printer; but neither the printer nor 

 his gentle art can be held responsible for a title, equally startling, in 

 the December Botanical Gazette, which reads, "The early botanical 

 views of Prunus domestica, by F. A. Waugh. Mr. Waugh should 



