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The curious may find interest in the following prospectus lately 

 come to us: "Orcutt. A Journal of American Science, publislied 

 weekly; 10 cents a copy; $5.00 a year; $50 for life, strictly in 

 advance. No complimentary copies; no free samples; no exchanges; 

 no advertisements in the text; no premiums; no discounts to agents 

 — the whole income going to make it larger and better. C. R. 

 Orcutt, San Diego, California." 



In the September number of the Land of Sunshine, we find an 

 illustrated article on "The Heart of Santa Catalina," by Mrs. 

 Blanche Trask. This is a very happy account of the herbaceous 

 and arboreus vegetation and of the color effects of plants, and rocks, 

 and water, by one who has botanized with great delight on every 

 part of the island, along the edges of the craters and in the most 

 remote corners. A mound oi Echinocystis jabacea, 12 feet high, is 

 shown in one illustration. 



The Botanical Society of America met in Toronto, August 16 

 and 17. The following officers were elected: President, N, L. 

 Britton of the New York Botanic Garden; Vice-President, J, C. 

 Arthur, Purdue University; Secretary, C. R. Barnes, University of 

 Wisconsin; Treasurer, Arthur Hollick, of Columbia University; 

 Councillors, B. L. Robinson, of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and F. V. Coville, of the Division of Botany, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Some of the papers presented were : "A Case 

 of Ecblastesis and Axial Prolification in Lepidium apetalum," by B. 

 L. Robinson; "Movement of Protoplasm in Coenocytic Hyph^e," by 

 J. C. Arthur ; "Pollen Grains and Antipodal Cells," by J. M. Coulter ; 

 " The Transition Region of the Caryophyllales," by F. E. Clements ; 

 "A Revision of the Species Picea Occurring in Northeastern America," 

 by D. P. Penhallow; "Bibliographic Difficulties," by E. L. Greene; 

 " The Botanical Gardens of Jamaica," by Wm, Fawcett. 



Dr. Henry N. Bolander, formerly of the California Geological 

 Survey and one of the most well-known of the early botanical 

 explorers of the Pacific Coast, died at Portland, Oregon, August 28, 

 1897. A sketch of his life and botanical work, accompanied by a 

 portrait, will appear in an early ensuing number of this journal. 



"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays." 

 The botanical staff of the Royal Botanical Gardens and Mu- 



