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relationships of certain flowering plants when 
we express admiration for the general plan and 
spirit of the work. We do not have to approve 
of many of the attempts of the author to avoid 
the use of Latin names of plants in order to be 
able to say that the book is one to be com- 
mended. The author has shown us how a sci- 
entific man may write so that the people may 
read and willread whatis written. For this we 
owe him our thanks. 
blane’ for Albugo candida, ‘ Beggiate blanche’ 
for Beggiatoa alba, ‘Charagne fragile’ for Chara 
fragilis, ‘Botryche lunaire’ for Botrychium lu- 
naria, ‘Welwitschie admirable’ for Welwitschia 
mirabilis, ‘Oponce vulgaire’ for Opuntia vul- 
garis, etc. On the other hand, many of the au- 
thor’s modifications of the Latin names are 
quite happy : for example, ‘ Puccinie du gra- 
men’ for Puccinia graminis, ‘ Tilletie du Blé’ for 
Tilletia tritici, ‘Pézize’ for Peziza, ‘Oedogone’ 
for Oedogonium, Zygnéme’ for Zygnema, ‘ Pter- 
ide’ for Pteris, ‘Agroste’ for Agrostis,’ Myr- 
iophylle’ for Myriophyllum, ete. When an 
American botanist who is prepared to under- 
take the work sets about the task of writing a 
botany for the people he will do well first to 
pretty carefully read Van Tieghem’s book. 
REPORT OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
THE Tenth Annual Report of the Missouri 
Botanical Garden has just come to hand, and 
we are able again to form some estimate of the 
value of the gift which Henry Shaw made to 
Science when he set aside a fortune for the en- 
dowment of the Garden. From the report of 
the financial officers we learn that the net avail- 
able income derived from the endowment after 
paying taxes, insurance, repairs, etc., is also a 
little more than $37,000. Of this sum about 
$21,000 have been used in the maintenance and 
improvement of the Garden as a collection of 
plants. About $13,000 have been used in pro- 
viding for the expenses connected with the 
scientific work of the Garden, including the 
herbarium, library, research work and publi- 
cations. The remaining $3,000 have been used 
for the Shaw School of Botany, and for the ex- 
penses of the annual ‘ Flower Sermon,’ ‘ Flower 
Show,’ and banquets, which were designated 
by Mr. Shaw. A careful study of the financial 
SCIENCE. 
We do not like ‘ Albuge- 
[N.S. Vou. X. No. 236. 
report shows that the trustees are so managing 
the estate as to increase its value, apparently 
with an eye to its greater usefulness in tke 
future. 
The net results botanically each year are the 
maintenance of a botanical garden of high 
scientific importance, and provision for the 
library, herbarium and publications which per- 
tain thereto. We have now had ten reports, 
each including scientific papers of a high order 
of merit, dealing with many phases of botanical 
work. <A few titles will suffice to show the 
range of these papers, as follows: ‘ Revision 
of the North American Species of Sagittaria and 
Lophotocarpus,’ ‘ Juglandacez of the United 
States,’ ‘A Revision of the American Lemna- 
cee occurring North of Mexico,’ ‘A Revision of 
the Genus Capsicum with especial reference to 
garden varieties,’ ‘List of Cryptogams col- 
lected in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand 
Cayman,’ ‘A New Disease of Cultivated Palms,’ 
‘Notes on the Grasses in the Bernhardi Her- 
barium collected by Thaddeus Haenke and 
described by J. S. Presl,’ ‘A Sclerotioid Dis- 
ease of Beech Roots.’ A list has been pub- 
lished of the books and papers which have 
emanated directly and indirectly from the Gar- 
den, which shows that during the brief period 
of its existence no less than two hundred 
and twenty-three contributions have appeared. 
Could the generous founder return to see the 
results of his philanthropy he would doubtless. 
feel that his hopes had been more than realized.. 
ATLAS OF OFFICINAL PLANTS. 
THE second edition of Berg and Schmidt’s 
‘Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen,’ which has 
been under way for several years, has reached 
the twenty-fourth Lieferung and Plate 140. The 
work maintains its high degree of excellence, 
and the plates are particularly to be com- 
mended for their scientific accuracy as well as 
beauty of drawing and coloration. When com- 
pleted, this work will be of the greatest value 
to the student of medicinal plants, while at the 
same time it will be useful to the general bota- 
nist. 
CHARLES KE. BEssEy. 
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. 
