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ordinary type as if both were tenable. For instance, there is a Cam- 
panula strigosa of Vahl and a Campanula strigosa of Solander, both in 
ordinary type. In such a case the nomenclature clerk may write: 
Campanula strigosa (Solander or Vahl ?),. 
It is well to explain in the beginning of a catalogue which names 
are the proper ones and which are the synonyms. The latter are com- 
monly in italics. It makes little difference how a catalogue is arranged, 
provided that there is a full index somewhere. Few indexes are 
enough. The Horsford catalogue has no index, and there are seven 
departments, the arrangement being alphabetical under each depart 
ment. The fact that there are seven departments should therefore be 
prominently stated, and the seven departments listed in the space of aa 
inch or two in such a way that the mind can take in the whole scheme. 
— WILHELM MILLER, Cornell University. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN AND INSTITUTE IN PADUA. 
Tue readers of the BoTANICAL GAZETTE may be interested to heat 
something of the ancient Botanical Garden of the University of _ 
instituted by the Venetian Senate in a decree of the pesto 
of June, 1545, through the wise forethought of Francis Bonaf 
in 1543. : 
Pe director, Professor P. A. Saccardo, who has recently improved 
the Institute and the Garden, published some interesting notices ate 
the 350th anniversary of its foundation from which I take the gre# 
part of this note.’ 
Professor Saccardo’s activity turned, in the first place, to eat 
the library, initiated in 1770 by one of his predecessors, John ae 
and enriched afterwards by Professor Bonato and Professor ae 
so that it contains already more than 10,000 volumes. e acs 
books, besides about forty periodical reviews and many aus 5, Vhs 
I must mention the oldest botanical book with instructive figures, 
Herbarium Apuleji Platonict, printed in Rome in 1479- of works 
The director has filled up during recent years the we 
on the floras, especially on the foreign ones, to make apes 
tl saa 
CCL dalla 
anno C Jiotype 
*SAccaRDO, P. A.: L’Orto botanico di Padova nei 1895 ( i 
: ight bh 
fondazione). Padua. 1895. Quarto, with one topographical and elg 
plates, 
