ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 295 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Boston.— American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 
Proceedings, vol. XXXII, January to July, 1897, pp. 121-385. Vol. XXXIII, July, 1897, to 
May, 1898,512 pp. Vol. XXXIV, 1898, Nos. 1-7, 148 pp. No.1. On the thermal conductivities 
of certain poor conductors—I, by B. O. Pierce and R. W. Willson, pp. 3-56. No. 2. The 
contact-potential between metals and and fused salts, and the dissociation of fused salts, 
by Clarence McCheyne Gordon, 59-68. No.3. On fluctuations in the composition of nat- 
ural gas, by Francis C. Phillips, pp. 71-83. No.4. Some electro-chemical and thermo- 
chemical relations of zinc and cadmium amalgams, by Theodore William Richards and 
Gilbert Newton Lewis, pp. 87-99. No.5. Trinitrophenylmalonic ester, second paper, by C. 
Loring Jackson and J. I. Phinney, pp. 103-115. No.6. On the action of sodic ethylate on 
tribrom-dinitrobenzol, by C. Loring Jackson and Waldemar Koch, pp. 119-135. No.7. On 
certain derivatives of symmetrical trichlorbenzol, by C. Loring Jackson and F. H. Gazzolo, 
pp. 139-148. ; 
Boston Society of Natural History: 
Proceedings, vol. XVIII, Nos. 1-9, April, 1897—June, 1898, 264 pp. Notes on the mammals 
of Ontario, by Gerrit S. Miller, jr., pp. 1-44. Proceedings of annual meeting, May 5, 1897, 
pp. 45-72. The role of water in growth, by C. B. Davenport, pp. 73-84; 8 figs. The Harvard 
geographical models, by William Morris Davis, with a note on the construction of the 
models, by G. C. Curtis, pp. 85-110; 4 pll. Clumene producta, sp. nov., by Margaret Lewis 
pp. 111-115; 2 pll. A contribution to the petrography of the Boston basin, by Theodore G. 
White, pp. 117-156; 5 pll. The land mammals of peninsular Florida and the coast region 
of Georgia, by Outram Bangs, pp. 157-235. The genus Antennaria in New England, by 
Merritt L. Fernald, pp. 237-249. Notes on a Carboniferous boulder train ineastern Massa- 
chusetts, by Myron L. Fuller, pp. 251-264; 1 map. 
Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture: 
Bop on the extermination of the gypsy moth, pp. 1-48; 9 pll. (1 colored). Appendices, 
pp. 49-85. 
Report on the extermination of the gypsy moth, January, 1898, 1388 pp.; 5 pli. (1 colored). 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Robert Manning, Secretary: 
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1895, part III, pp. 
351-421. List of accessions to the library. 
For the year 1896, part II, 283 pp., reports. 
For the year 1897. Tropical horticulture, by George Lincoln Goodale, pp. 13-19. The 
structure and classification of mushrooms, by Hollis Webster, pp. 20-28. The chrysanthe- 
mum, by Edmund M. Wood, pp. 28-43. Plant beauty, by Henry T. Bailey, pp. 43-46. The 
sweet pea, by Rey. W. T. Hutchins, pp. 46-64. Some phases of market-gardening, by T. 
Greiner, pp. 64-77. Good food from the garden, by Miss Anna Barrows, pp. 77-88. Horti- 
culture in Canada, by Prof. William Saunders, pp. 88-106. Soils and potting, by T. D. Hat- 
field, pp. 107-116. The spread of plant diseases, by Dr. Erwin F. Smith, pp. 117-133. 
eae of prizes offered by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1897, 
5 pp. 
CAMBRIDGE.—Gray Herbarium of Harvard College: 
Contributions from the herbarium, new series, vol. XXXIII. No. 17. Revision of the 
North American and Mexican species of Mimosa, by B. L. Robinson, pp. 305-331. Revi- 
sion of the North American species of Neptunia, by B. L. Robinson, pp. 331-334. 
No. 25. Revision of the Mexican and Central American species of Galium and Relbu- 
a Diagnoses of new and critical Mexican phanerogams, by J. M. Greenman, pp. 
55-189, 
New species and extended ranges of North American Caryophyllacee, by B. L. Robinson, 
pp. 165-171; 1 pl. 
A case of ecblastesis and axial prolification in Lepidium apetalum, by B. L. Robinson, 
pp. 209-212; 1 pl. 
Some new and noteworthy plants of the northwest, by J. M. Greenman, pp. 261-269. 
Some reasons why the Rochester nomenclature cannot be regarded as a consistent or 
stable system, by B. L. Robinson, pp. 437-445. 
A new species of Apios from Kentucky, by B. L. Robinson, pp, 450-453. 
Merritt L. Fernald, Author: 
Antennaria plantaginea and A. parlinii, by M. L. Fernald, 4 pp.; 1 pl. 
i upon some northwestern Castilleias of the parviflora group, by M. L. Fernald, pp. 
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College: 
Annual reports of the curator, for 1896-97, 44 pp.; 1897-98, 44 pp. 
Bulletins: Vol. XXVIII, No. 4. A visit to the Great Barrier reef of Australia in the 
steamer * Croydon” during April and May, 1896, by Alexander Agassiz, pp. 95-148; 42 pll. 
