196 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
Various committees on nomenclature, terminology, biblio- 
graphy, and geographic botany submitted reports which were 
discussed and acted upon. The session is of such recent date 
that a full account of the proceedings cannot appear in this 
issue. 
Tue Australasian Association for the Advancement of 
Science, which numbers nine hundred members, meets 
September 25th at Adelaide, South Australia. 
THE Scientific Alliance, composed of the scientific societies 
of New York city, has determined to raise a sum of not less 
than $25,000 to be known as the John Strong Newberry Fund, 
the income derived from which is to be devoted to the 
encouragement of scientific work in geology, paleontology, 
botany, and zoology. Professor N. L. Britton is secretary of 
the committee which has the matter of subscriptions in charge. 
The name of the late Professor Newberry is on the list of 
botanists who in the early days of California’s statehood made 
explorations on this Coast. He was connected with several 
of the Pacific Railroad survey parties as geologist and botanist, 
and while on such duty accumulated material for several 
papers on Pacific Coast botany. His “Forest Trees of 
Northern California and Oregon” is a well-known contribu- 
tion to western botany. 
Ir is not often that a scientific work evokes widespread 
criticism so suggestive and instructive in its character that it 
is worth while to gather together scattered critiques 
and publish them because of their living value and great im- 
portance. Yet this has been done for the much abused 
Revisio Generum Plantarum of Kuntze, and appears as Part 
Ill. The author has collected and collated all opinions, 
whether favorable or adverse, and reviewed his reviewers. 
Although not intended to be such, Part III is proof of 
the great importance of the parts which preceded it. 
Those whose criticisms were intended to be of a suppressive 
nature may be interested in knowing this. 
