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ladex-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-GeQeral, U.S. Army. 1880-93. 



Catalogues and indexes the papers in nearly all the medical periodicals and reports 



in every language. 

 Billings and Fletcher. — Index Medicus ; begun in 1879, both author and subject 



index to all papers in any way bearing on medical science and surgery. Issued 



monthly. New York. 



BOTANY. 

 General Literature. 

 Pritzel, G. a. — Thesaurus Literaturas Botanicae. Leipzig, 1872-74. 

 Jackson, B. D. — Guide to the Literature of Botany, London, 1881. 

 Haller, a. von. — Bibliotheca Botanica, qua scriptorum ad Rem Herbariam 



facientia a rerum initiis recensentur. Tiguri, 1772. 

 Seguier, J. F. — Bibliotheca Botanica, sive Catalogus auctorura et librorum qui 



de Re Botanica, de Medicamentis ex Vegetabilibus paratis, de Re Rustica et de 



Horticultura tractant. Lugduni-Batavorum, 1760. 

 BoTANiscHEs Centralblatt (Casscl). — Yearly since 1880. 

 Botanisches Jahresbericht (Leipzig). — Yearly since 1874. 

 Britten and Boulger. — Biographical Index of British and Irish Botajiists. London, 



1893. Gives brief notes on life, works, portraits, and collections. 



For Nomenclature: 

 Pritzel. — Iconum botanicarum Index. 1861. Giving a reference to flowering 



plants and ferns discovered previously to i860. 

 Jackson and Hooker. — Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum, etc. This 



book gives a reference to every described flowering plant from the time of 



Linnaeus to the year 1885 inclusive. Two volumes A — Justicia are issued, the 



remaining two are promised shortly. 



Phanerogams. 

 De Candolle. — Prodromus Syst. Nat. Regni Vegetabilis. Paris, etc., 1824, etc. 

 De Candolle. — Monographiae Phanerogamarum. 8 vols. Parisiis, 1878, etc. In 



progress. This amounts to a new edition of the earlier Prodromus. 

 Buek, H. W. — Genera Species et Synonyma Candolleana, etc. 4 vols. Berlin and 



Hamburg, 1842-74. 

 Nyman, C. F. — Conspectus Florae Europae. 8vo. Orebro, 1878-82. 

 Bentham and Hooker. — Genera plantarum, 1862-80. 

 DuRAND, T. — Index generum Phanerogamarum, etc. Bruxellis, 1888. 



Cryptogams. 

 ToNi, J. B. de — Sylloge Algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Patavii, 1889-94. 



Contains all the known forms of the algae and the diatoms. In progress. 

 Saccardo, p. a. — Sylloge Fungorum omnium hucusque cognitarum. 10 vols. 



Patavii, 1882-92. All Fungi known up to date. 

 Jaeger and Sauerbeck. — Genera et Species Muscorum, etc. 2 vols. San Gallis, 



1870-79. Came out in parts in Verb. St. Gallischen nat. Ges. 

 Bottini, a. — Bibliografia Briologica Italiana. Atti (Mem.) Soc. Toscana, xii. 



(1893), pp. 256-292. 

 Hue, a. M. — Lichenes exotici a Professore W. Nylander. Parisiis, 1892. 

 Gottsche, C. M.,et alii. — Synopsis Hepaticarum. Hamburgi, 1844-47. F. Stephani 



is busy upon the Hepatics, and his works should be consulted by the student. 

 Spruce, R. — Hepaticae of the Amazon. London, 1885. Monographs several 



genera. 

 Habirshaw, F. — Catalogue of the Diatomaceae. Ed. 2. By H. H. Chase. New 



York, 1885. Very few copies made by cyclostyle, but can be seen in the Botanical 



Department, British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Contains Bibliography. 



GEOLOGY. 

 General Literature. 

 The Geological Record. — 1874-1884. A yearly record of the geological litera- 

 ture of the world between these years. Discontinued. In vol. i., for 1880-1884, a 

 complete list of all geological serials then existing is given. 



