BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 81 
the late Dr. George Engelmann, were unanimously adopted by the Botanical 
Section of the aera of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, April 14, 1884 
Wu The Botanical Section of the Academy of Natural "wwaie of 
Philadelphia Ka its heard per’ ee ach regret of the death of Dr. George Engel-. 
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Resolved, We regard this as a calamity to botanical science, and to those 
who were in any. way associated with him in its nfo also, 
Resolved, itt in his life he furnished an example of industry in his pro- 
fession, of devo tion to science, of thoroughness in , eviaaaien ae and of success 
: copied which will always command our admiration and respect; and be it 
urther 
Resolved, That by his readiness to ae all who were seekers after the meh on 
of nature, by the conscientious answers to the botanical questions referred t 
him, n no less than n by his goo ma are ve a man, we believe he has attached many “3 
the science in whose service he 
5 om Cheb d to the cs isa GAZETTE, with the request that they be 
published therein. 0: 
THoMAS MEEHAN. 
Joun H. RepFiecp. 
Collections from Porto Rico.—Herr P. Sintenis (known through his 
journey in the Orient), is to begin a botanical examination of Porto Rico dur- 
ing the coming summer, under direction of the undersigned. The specimens 
will be offered at 30 marks ($7.50) a century. The undersigned will receive the 
names of subscribers to this collection, but prefers that payments should not be 
made in advance. Dr. T. URBAN, Schineberg bei Berlin, Germany. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
In Dr. Vasey’s Schedule of N. Am. species of esau in the last Ga- 
ZETTE, p.55, No. 5 should read P. vaginatum instead of P. variegat 
M vis L. James recently read before the Cincinnati scaly of 
Natural en a memorial notice of Thomas W. Spurlock, a botanist of con- 
siderable local reptuation. 
THe Marcu numper of Grevillea is vs Bae with pages 17 to ~ of ~ 
new edition of Cooke’s Handbook of Fungi, 
to the eighty-seventh species. 
THE Aprit Am. Naturalist Prof. Bessey gives an account, with figures, 
of the discovery of glands upon the pedicels of Sporobolus heterolepis, to which 
some minute insects had stuck fast. In fact the victims led to the discovery of 
the trap. 
Tue Bunuerin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, No. 
III, contains the report of the Botanical Committee, with additions to the New 
Brunswick Flora, edited by Mr. G. M. Hay. Inthe list we note Montia fontana 
and Potamogeton obtusifolius. 
