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useful feature of the list is the citation in 

 every case of the time and place of publica- 

 tion, and the name of the publisher. 



MONTANA BOTANY. 



Within the past few months Professor 

 Blankinship has published numbers 1, 2 and 

 3 of the ' Montana Agricultural College Sci- 

 ence Studies,' including three botanical papers 

 of much more than usual interest. The first 

 of these, ' A Century of Botanical Exploration 

 in Montana,' includes a chronological list of 

 seventj'-four collectors who have worked in the. 

 state, beginning with Meriwether Lewis, of 

 the Lewis and Clarke expedition in 1805 and 

 1806, and ending with Millie M. Smith and 

 Arthur Lehman in 1904. The bibliography 

 includes eighty-three titles. 



The second paper is a ' Supplement to the 

 Flora of Montana,' and includes additional 

 species, and corrections of the list given in 

 Dr. P. A. Eydberg's ' Catalogue of the Flora 

 of Montana and the Yellowstone National 

 Park' (Memoirs N. T. Bot. Gard., 1900). 

 There are about three hundred and eighty- 

 six additions, seventy-eight corrections and 

 twenty-eight new species and varieties. Ap- 

 parently the author has been conservative in 

 his treatment of both old and new species, and 

 apparently the corrections have been made 

 with care. This list is a valuable and notable 

 addition to our knowledge of Montana flower- 

 ing plants, and must prove very helpful when 

 the descriptive botany of the region comes to 

 be written. 



The third paper consists of lists of the com- 

 mon names of Montana plants. Every plant 

 is entered twice, once alphabetically under its 

 common name, and again in a similar list in 

 which the scientific names are arranged 

 alphabetically. It is a valuable contribution 

 to the botany of common names, and serves 

 very well to show how variable and unreliable 

 such names are. Charles E. Bessey. 



The Univebsity of Nebraska. 



auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, left San Diego, California, on March 

 2, to enter upon her second cruise. She is 

 expected to make the following circuit of 

 about 20,000 miles by the end of this year : 

 San Diego, Fanning Islands, Samoan Islands, 

 Fiji Islands, Marshall Islands, Guam, Yoko- 

 hama, Aleutian Islands and back again to 

 San Diego. 



It was necessary to reorganize the scientific 

 personnel as those of the former staff belong- 

 ing to the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 were obliged to return to their oJEcial duties 

 at the expiration of their furloughs. The 

 command of the vessel has accordingly now 

 been entrusted to Mr. W. J. Peters, formerly 

 of the astronomical and topographical corps 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey. He has had 

 considerable experience in difficult geograph- 

 ical work, was second in command and in 

 charge of the scientific work of the recent 

 Ziegler Polar Expedition as the representative 

 of the National Geographic Society. 



In connection with the latter expedition, Mr. 

 Peters made a valuable series of magnetic, 

 meteorological and tidal observations at 

 Teplitz Bay, Franz Joseph Land. 



The other members of the present staff are: 

 Mr. J. P. Ault, mag-netic observer (likewise a 

 member of the former staff), Mr. J. C. Pear- 

 son, magnetic observer (formerly instructor of 

 physics at Bowdom College) and Dr. H. E. 

 Martyn, surgeon and recorder. The sailing 

 master is Captain J. T. Hayes. While the 

 vessel was at San Diego some additional 

 changes and improvements were made both in 

 the ship and in the instruments employed. 

 Sufficient funds have been allotted so as to 

 permit carrying on this work continuously 

 throughout the year. L. A. Bauer. 



Department Terrestrial Magnetism, 

 March 10, 1906. 



TBE MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE PACIFIC 

 OCEAN: SECOND CRUISE. 



The Yacht Galilee, engaged in the mag- 

 netic survey of the Pacific Ocean under the 



UNIVERSITY CONTROL. 

 In the colleges from which our universities 

 have developed the problem of administration 

 was comparatively simple. The faculty and 

 the president met weekly and consulted daily; 

 each was familiar with the work of the entire 



