eee ee : as 
OPEN LETTERS. 
SCIENTIFIC CHIEF FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- 
CULTURE: 
for Shoal Botanical Gasete :—The editorial in the GAZETTE 
ies an entire! cates sg a scientific chief of the Department of Agriculture 
the botanical a ee impression as to the position of those in charge 0 
Be Webartinent are nae So far as Iam aware, the entire scientific corps of 
letter in the aire f spiel vastee? contemplated. My open 
Bi i wneweort Basen has no bearing upon this question, but 
and a duplication oa o . e statement that there is a dissipation of energy 
that this could be av ee : d a Me botanical branches of the Department, and 
writer, would destro oe by certain changes, which, in the judgment of the 
Way, Washington, Se n autonomy of the present divisions.—B. T. GALLO- 
T 
HE CHECK-LIST: AND THE NEW ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF 
.. .. NORTH AMERICA.’ 
the above See of the Botanical Gazette :— Ever since the publication of 
Ct ue 33. otf -/ist many and very diverse opinions have been express 
visability of adopting this work with its numerous changes in 
this subject have, however, been 
sable or not, 
changes. 
tatement 
ing without cultivation in north- 
New York: 
* List of we 
Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta grow 
he Botanical Club. 
eastern North 
| A: . 
1893-4, merica. Prepared by a committee of t 
®*N. L. B 
€m States cea sha and Hon. ADDISON BRowN: An Illustrated Flora of the North- 
1896] anada. New York: 1896. 
