92 ERYTHEA. 



Mr. Wm. I. ScLATER, formerly Curator of Eton College 

 Museum, England, has been appointed to the curatorship of 

 the South African Museum, Cape Town, in the place of Mr. 

 Roland Trimen, F. R. S., F. L. S., who has resigned. 



Miss Clara E. Cummings, Associate Professor of Botany 

 in Wellesley College, is now traveling in California. 



We have received Part VI of " Hough's American 

 Woods " which illustrates twenty-five trees and shrubs of the 

 Pacific Coast by thin sections of their wood in radial, longi- 

 tudinal and transverse directions. The preparations are very 

 beautiful and are accompanied by descriptive text. The 

 following species are included: ^sculus Californica, Rham- 

 nus Purshiana, Cercocarpus ledifolius, Prosopis julifiora, 

 Cercidium Torreyanum, Garrya elliptica, Arbutus Menziesii, 

 Arctosiaphylos pungens, Platanus racemosa, Salix laeviga- 

 ta, Chilopsis saligna^ Quercus agrifolia, Q. Oarryana, Q. 

 densiflora, Sequoia gigantea, S. sempervirens, Torreya Cali- 

 fornioa, Pinus contorta, P. ponderosa, P. Lambertiana, 

 Pseudofsuga taxifolia, Picea Sitchensis, Taxus brevifolia, 

 Libocedrus decurrens. 



Part 13 of Prof. Greene's Pittonia, issued under date of 

 May 1, has recently been received by us. It contains five 

 articles, viz: Nomenclature of the Fuller's Teasel; Proposed 

 New Genus of Cruciferae; New or Noteworthy Species, XV; 

 New Genus of PolemoniaceaB; Some Mexican Eupatoriacese. 

 [Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco, 50c.] 



The Botanical Gazette with the March number passed into 

 the possession of the University of Chicago. The editorial 

 board remains unchanged. 



Mr. J. BuRTT Davy is now investigating the vegetation of 

 the alkali areas of the upper San Joaquin Valley in Califor- 

 nia and will also botanize to some extent in the Mohave 

 Desert region. 



Mr. M. a. Howe will spend May and June in Mendocino 

 and Humboldt counties of California engaged in making 

 field-studies and collections of mosses and hepatics. 



