192 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [July 
ises to be the largest one ever held, and being in a most interesting locality, 
can hardly fail of being both enjoyable and profitable. The great thing is to 
come acquainted with each other, and with the excursions and receptions 
arranged for, abundant opportunity for this will be given. Every one should 
come prepared to give some item to the club, the meetings of which are wholly 
informal. The first meeting will be held in the room assigned to biology, on 
Thursday morning at nine o’clock, the second day of the Association. No one 
interested in botany should fail to register and receive the badge of the club. 
Tue “ HERBARIUM NuMBER” brought in so much material that it was im- 
possible to crowd it all into our thirty-two pages. Nearly eight pages were 
held over and are given to our readers in this number. The stress of good 
to thirty-six pages. Our contributors must not be deterred by this fact from 
continuing to send articles, but it explains the occasional Seg in their appear- 
ance, a necessity regretted by no one more than the edit 
THE ONLY addition (so far as we know) to be noe to the list of Engel- 
mann’s botanical papers, published in this journal for May, 1884, is his elab- 
oration of the Euphorbiacex in the Bot. Mex. Bound, Survey. If the writer of 
of the sketch of Engelmann in the Pop. Sci. Mo. for J une, who remarks that the 
list is incomplete, can add anything to it, he will confer a great favor on 
botanists by designating the omissions, 
OPEN LETTERS. 
Concerning Labels, etc. 
Pa hile we are bringing together our various herbarium notions, let me say 
bout labels. The point I chiefly wish to make is the importance of 
ox them legibly, and in good Roman type, on pase that is not too stiff. 
“sol th at one who has ever Shad much experience in attaching labels to the 
h me that one that curls upon itself when wet with the paste 
i a piping Again, as the rule is to preserve the original collector’s labels 
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sible? It is perfectly practicable to take with one on an excursion ev venly cut 
slips of paper, instead of odds and ends of we Of nine in labels ~ _ 
_spoken elsewhere; wrong 6 it exhibits the “man himself” as much as any style 
Se BEES, r have in mind now certain "eae i Hai conducive “A pe 
} ord, er concerning — forwarding of plants for exchange or identifi- 
cation. Do no t snip off the ae en et raceme and forward it to a botanist, 
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egrees is guilty of such an offense. Particular! ie 
: , y is such an urence exas 
perating when eviscerated fr nts mo erata. 
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