SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 3O9 
1883. Seventh Annual Report of Railroad Commissioners for State of Missouri, 
1881 and Bulletin of Geographical Society, 1882. Notes on Literature of Explo- 
sives by Prof. Chas. E. Monroe, U. S. N. A., 1883. Proceedings Royal Geo- 
graphical Society, 1883. Scholar and Man, by M. F. Force, address before 
Literary Societies of Marietta College. Catalogue of Missouri State University, 
1882-3. Psyche — Entomological Society — 1883. Fuel for the Army, 1882, 
Gen'l M. C. Meigs. Notes on Value of Carbo Hydrates as Food and Physiol- 
ogy of Starch-Digestion, address by Lloyd Tevis, of California, 1881. A His- 
tory of the People of the U. S., by John B. McMaster. Railway Review, June 
30, 1883. Tours in England, Ireland and Scotland, Where to Go and What to 
See in the British Isles. Fourth Report of Executive Committee, and Second 
Report of Committee on American School of Classical Studies, at Athens, 1883. 
Ninety- Fifth Anniversary of Settlement at Marietta, Ohio, address by Hon. Geo. 
B. Loiing, 1883. Bureau of Education Circular on Co-Education of Sexes in 
Public Schools of U. S., 1883. Kansas— The Golden Belt Lands, 1883, B. Mac 
AUister. Political Economy, a Science Based on Assumptions, by WilHam D, 
Kelly, 1882. How Protection Affects the Farmer, by Thomas D. Hudley, 1882. 
Magazine of American History, edited by Mrs. M. J. Lamb, 1883. Proceedings 
of Fifth Grand Annual Communication of Grand Lodge of New Mexico, 1882. 
Christian Quarterly Review, edited by E. W. Herndon, A. M., M. D., 1883. 
Bulletin Philosophical Society of Washington, Containing Minutes from 203 to 
226 Meeting, 1883. Catalogue of Marietta College, 1835 to 1882, and Annual 
Catalogue 1882-3. Alumni Memorial of Marietta College. Memorial of John 
Cotton, Caleb Emerson, John Mills, A. T. Nye, Wm. R. Putnam, Samuel Ship- 
man, B. B. Gaylord, E. B. Andrews, B. D. Fearing, D. W. Washburn. Report 
on Agricultural College Lands Lately Sold, by G. C. Swallow, LL.D., 1880-1. 
The Hog, address before American Agricultural Association at Chicago, 1882, 
by F. D. Coburn. Footprints of British Lion, 1882. 
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY, 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 
S. A. MAXWELL. 
I. On May 5, 1880, Mrs. F. M. Harrison, of Union Grove, Whiteside Co., 
Illinois, found a specimen of smooth lung-wort, Mertensia Virginica, the corolla of 
which was of pure white. In all other respects the plant was just like the one 
improperly called the ''blue-bell," except that the leaves and stem seemed to be 
a little lighter colored. It was probably a freak of nature— an albino of its 
species. 
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