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cently distributed a fourth century of "select plants of South- 

 ern California." The specimens are choice and will be found 

 equal to those of previous sets. 



The completion of the Flora of British India, on which 

 Sir Joseph Hooker has been engaged for twenty-five years, is 

 announced. Although advanced in years Sir Joseph will un- 

 dertake to complete Trimen's unfiuished Flora of Ceylon. 



Dr. El. A. Phillippi, for many years the most well-known 

 of South American botanists, has recently resigned the 

 Directorship of the National Museum at Santiago, Chili, 

 which he has held for forty-three years. He is now ninety 

 years of age. 



Dr. Augustine Henry, the well-known explorer of China, 

 writes to the Kew Bulletin that the region about Yunnan, 

 " the most interesting in the world," is evidently the head- 

 quarters of most of the genera which are now spread all over 

 Europe and Asia in great part. He finds the wild tea in that 

 country ; hitherto tea has been found wild only in Assam. 



The Department of Botany of this University has recently 

 moved from its old and much crowded quarters in South Hall 

 to a building recently erected for its exclusive use, a further 

 notice of which will be given in a future number of this 

 journal. 



The Board of Directors of the Southern California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences at Los Angeles for 1897-8 is as follows: 

 W. A. Spaulding, President; Abbott Kinney, First Vice-Pres- 

 ident; Dr. A. Davidson, Second Vice-President; Dr. E. A 

 Praeger, Treasurer; B. B. Bauragardt, Secretary; Dr. Jos. C. 

 Nevin; Dr. H. M. Bishop; J. D. Hooker; Prof. J. A. Foshay; 

 W. H. Knight; J. S. Vasburg. The " Bacteriologist and 

 Botanist" of the Agricultural Experiment Section is A. J. 

 McClatchie. 



The Division of Botany of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture has issued a timely eight page Circular (" No. 

 12. — Revised."), on the Camphor- Tree. The circular has 



