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Mr. George Hansen has published (August 1, 1896), iu pam- 

 phlet form, "Additions to the List of Specimens Collected in Amador, 

 Calaveras, and Alpine Counties." Two new oaks are named but not 

 described, numbers of the distributed set being cited as type speci- 

 men?. The first list, published some two years since, was entitled 

 "Flora of the Sequoia Gigantea Region," and was accompanied by 

 a descriptive account of the author's botaniziugs in the Sierra foot- 

 hills and the High Sierras. 



The New England Botanical Club is one of the recent botanical 

 organizations of the eastern United States. It was "established for 

 the promotion of social intercourse and the dissemination of local 

 and general information" among gentlemen interested in the flora of 

 New England. The club, which has already a very considerable 

 membership, held its first annual meeting in December last, at the 

 St. Botolph's Club, in Boston. The ofiicers for 1897 are: President, 

 N. T. Kidder; vice-president, J.R.Churchill; recording secretary 

 and treasurer, E. F. Williams; corresponding secretary, E. L. 

 Rand; phanerogamic curator, Walter Deane; cryptogamic curator, 

 Roland Thaxter ; councilors, G. G. Kennedy and B. L. Robinson. 

 The herbarium is growing very rapidly and numbers at present 

 5,000 sheets. 



Numbers 111 and 112 of the Kew Bulletin, dated March and 

 April, 1896, have reached Berkeley. So long a time elapsed between 

 the receipt of the February number and the joint numbers for March 

 and April that we feared the publication of the Bulletin had ceased. 

 Such a contingency would be veiy regrettable. We ai)preciate 

 highly the valuable information published from time to time, espe- 

 cially that relating to new cultural industries>,and commercial and 

 agricultural botany in general. The cessation of the Bulletin would 

 cause a gap which could scarcely be filled from any other source, 

 and we often feel a desire, that the Director of Kew might see his 

 way to extend, rather than curtail^ it. The last number received 

 contains an interesting article on the vegetation of the botanically 

 little-known island of Formosa, from the pen of Mr. Augustine 

 Henry, who is so well known on account of his persevering investi- 

 gation of the Chinese flora. 



