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deceased brother, and with the understanding that it shall be made avail- 
able to students and public alike. A large part of the collection has been 
carefully mounted by the donor on sheets a good deal la rger than usual 
(an advantage, perhaps, with ferns). In most cases there is much dupli- 
bution. The collection is cosmopolitan. The following items give sone 
idea of the scope of the bequest: Canada to Florida, New Mexico, Arizona 
and Ualifornia (565 sheets); India and South India (537 sheets) ; Cay 
_ (228 species, 267 sheets); Jamaica (200 species) ; Trinidad (146 species); 
New Caledonia, South Africa, Pacific islands and Madagascar (all very 
complete). Besides hese, there are the herbar a of W. T. Atkinson (970 
sheets, mostly North Indian ferns) and Dr. A. P. Garber (Phanerogams 
of Florida, 340 species). A valuable set of books, comprising the best of 
fern literature, also accompanies the plants. ; 
It will thus be seen that Brown University acquires a collection of 
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plant. The mild days of last week melted the snow, brought back the 
__ birds, and induced a general Spring-time feeling, to which the children 
_ ofa neighborhood on the vutskirts of the city gave expression by diggins 
and eating the artichokes that occur plentifully on some low ground 
bordering a brook. Two of these boys were soon taken violently ill, and 
the son of Julius Krueger, who was eight years old, died within an hour. 
of the stomach of the de: 
_-roscopl¢ examination showed the macerated fragments to be identical 
dried tubers of Cicuta m 
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of the tuber found in the stomach on post? pr 
that the stronger boy, who vomited and recove 
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cation, and generous display of material to illustrate geographical! distri- 
Sandwich Islands (100 species); New Zealand (nearly complete collection); 
ferns almost as valuable as its fine set of Carices.—W. W. Batvey, Brown o 
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Death from eating Cienta maculata. —Ann Arbor, Michigan, adds rs 
other to the already considerable list of poisonings due to this virulent 
