MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 37 



stating ,tliat it was new and that I would describe it. He 

 communicated the specimen and my statement to a person 

 now connected with Mr. Kearney's division, and the latter 

 deliberately published it without my knowledge or consent. 

 I have the whole correspondence to substantiate my position. 

 As to the location of the co-types Mr. Kearney discovered 

 before his article was published that they were in my 

 possession. They will remain there till they can be properly 

 labelled and returned to the Department. This is made 

 necessary by the gross blundering of an official of the 

 Department, the details of which it is not necessary to give. 

 I have called this a blunder but the attempt to rob me of my 

 new species leads me to think that I have used the mildest 

 term possible in the case. — Marcus E. Jones, Salt Lake 

 City, 3 January, 1896. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



The California Science Association held its second annual 

 meeting in Oakland, January 3-4. 



The December number of Meehan's Montlily contains a 

 portrait of Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, Government 

 Botanist of Victoria, Australia, with a sketch of his life. 

 Baron Mueller is not only celebrated for his work on the 

 botany of the great island-continent, but further for his gen- 

 erous distribution of specimens of Australian plants and 

 plant-products to the botanists of the world. 



BoTANisT8/Who have watched the rapid disappearance of 

 the beautiful and interesting oak, Quercus densiflora, due to 

 the axe of the tan-bark hunter, will be glad to learn, that the 

 root of Rumex hymenosepalus is likely to come into greater 

 favor as tanning material. It is said, that one ton of the 

 dock is equal in value to five tons of the oak-bark. 



A CONSPECTUS of the genus Arenaria by F. N. Williams 

 appears in the November number of Biilleiin de VHerhier 



