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Fiora Franciscana, Part III, presents the following orders and 
sequence: Papav Nympl 5 rosereae, Laurineae 
tberideae, Ranunculaceae, Sarmentosae (Vitaceae), Araliaceae, Um- 
belliferae, Corneae, Elaeagneae, Daphnoideae (Thymelaeaceae), San- 
talaceae, Lorantheae, Caprifoliaceae, Rubiaceae, Valerianeae. 
THE UsUAL summer courses in botany at Harvard University are 
announced. Mr. W. F. Ganongand Mr. G. J. Pierce will conduct two 
courses each in morphology and physiology and in histology, while 
Tt. A. B. Seymour offers (for advanced students only) two courses, 
one in general cryptogamic botany and one in economic mycology. 
expedition during the coming season from the southwestern corner of 
Virginia to the Mississippi river along the southern border of Ken- 
u 
desiring to arrange for the purchase of sets of specimens.can address 
Mr. Reed at Lancaster, Pa. 
NS. Wricur has accepted the position of botanist in the 
pharmaceutical establishment of Eli Lilly & Sons, Indianapolis, Ind., 
ers r to Walt ns, who resigned to take a position in the 
tanical division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Mr. Wright 
enters upon his duties in June at the completion of his undergraduate 
Studies in Purdue University. 
bs unfortunate delay is necessitated by the failure of the printing 
aving the contract to resume work since their establishment was 
IN THE sUMMER 
ear Planned with special reference to high school teachers are 
the growing attractiveness of the Royal Gardens at 
par may be obtained from the report of the number of visitors in 
194 vist a record which now covers 50 years. fig 
»*14 Visitors ; in 1851, 327,900; in 1861, 480,070; 1n 1871, 
tile <8 3 1881, 836,676; in eis eden On a single holiday, 
he ee 1890), the attendance was 106,808. 
ler have oon, sNDBERG, Messrs. D. T. MacDougal and A. A. Hel- 
of the I Sone to Idaho under the auspices of the Botanical Division 
Forward to the Bitter Root mountains, and down into the 
ton, Idaho of the Columbia river. Their headquarters are at Lewis- 
Tre : 
0. F. Cook ayTION TO WESTERN AFRICA under the direction of Mr. 
“omplished of Syracuse University, has been unfortunate and has ac- 
much less than anticipated on account of tropical fever. 
