314 Zhe Botanical Gazette. [May, 
With the assistance of the author, the translator proposes to adapt the 
work for use in English-speaking countries, and to add the results of 
the more important recent investigations. New figures to supplement 
the original will be added, bringing the number to over 300. 
AMONG THE biographical memoirs issued by the National Academy 
of Sciences that of Dr. Engelmann, by Charles A. White, has just ap- 
eared. The various memoirs of Dr. Engelmann already published 
son, Dr. George J. Engelmann. The more one studies the life and 
work of Dr. Engelmann the more is he impressed by the unwearied 
patience, the prodigious capacity for work, and the keen and critical 
land botanist. Cutler is certai ly one hose botanists much of 
whose deserved reputation unfortunately died with h ‘ 
ings were voluminous, but chi y remain as manuscript volumes, an 
would have ranked him among the first of American botanists. ‘Then 
follow accounts of Nuttall, Bigelow, Amos Eaton, Dewey, the brett 
ers Boott, Hitchcock, Emerson, Oakes, Pickering, Gray, Wright, We 
son, Robbins, Morong, Russell, Tuckerman, Frost, Olney, James, 4 
D. C, Eaton, certainly a worthy list. The publication of numerous 
Portraits also makes the paper especially interesting to botanists. — 
E “MESCAL BUTTON” is yielding some very interesting result? 
the direction of its Physiological action. It is the little cactus of t 
ower Rio Grand i 
Some question as to its identity. h if it is, according 10 74’ 
y, however, if it is, a vs 
Coney, “a small cactus, having ‘the general size and shape of 4 m 
