236 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [| September. 
land, well k to our readers his entertaining books 
subjects, and received a letter in reply which has recently been published 
in the Critic e le ontains a statement of what is apparently one 
of Mr. Allen’s inmost grievances; we 
s: “For ten years I have been fighting a hard battle against pov- 
erty, in writing scientific works ; and now I am just being compelled to 
is a very large and paying audience in America,” the latter buying pi- 
rated editions of his works from which he receives no profit. He adds: 
“T feel it all the harder because I was myself born in America, brought 
up on one of the Thousand Islands, and taught my first rudiments of 
a education beneath the shadow of the elms at Yale College, New 
aven. 
Tue Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science held its an- 
nual meeting in New York August 8 an he attendance was good 
and the programme an interesting one. The following isa summary of 
the rs containing items of botanical interest: “Some suggestions § 
J 
soming, and size of fruit of speci i is TNs 
Pid pecies of American grapes, DY *- iti 
rie ei important data in tabulated form of twenty-one pecies of ~ 
nited States, including one inedited species—V. Texana. 
