192 The Botanical Gazette. [April, 
fifty years shall not replace one which has been in use during that 
time; (6) that an exception be made to this rule in the case of generic 
names that have been in use at least fifty years since their restoration. 
Proressor L. H. BaIvey,ina recent address before the Biological So- 
ciety of Washington, discussed the subject of the plant individual in 
the light of evolution. He suggests the idea that both Lamarckism 
and Darwinism are true, but that the former finds its expression best 
in animals and the latter in plants. His chief points, however, are: 
(1) that the plant is not a simple autonomy, in the sense in which the 
animal is; (2) that the plant parts are independent in respect p- 
agation, struggle for existence, and transmission of characters; (3) that 
there is no essential difference between bud-varieties and seed-varie- 
continuity of a germ plasm in the sense in which these conceptions 
are applied to animals. 
FROM ADVANCE sheets of the Report of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 
den we take the following: The financial results for the jee year 
have been very satisfactory considering the depressed condition of 
trade. The surplus Dec. 31, 1893, amounted to $40,649.75; $19,824.18 
have been added in 1894, making the total surplus $60,473.93- 
but th iti 
