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College, Clareinont, California, as botanist ; Mr. Percy Wilson, 

 of the New York Botanical Garden, as assistant botanist, and 

 Mr. William T. Home, now fellow in botany in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, as assistant pathologist. Professor Earle sailed from 

 New York for Cuba with his family on April 30. 



"Alaska, Volume V. Cryptogamic Botany " is the title of a 

 handsome octavo volume of 424 pages and 44 plates lately pub- 

 lished by Doubleday, Page & Company, of New York. The 

 subject matter is concerned with the results of the Harriman 

 Alaska Expedition and comprises the following papers : " Intro- 

 duction," by William Trelease ; "The Fungi of Alaska," by P. 

 A. Saccardo, C. H. Peck and William Trelease; "The Lichens 

 of Alaska," by Clara E. Cummmgs ; " The Algae of the Expe- 

 dition," by De Alton Saunders ; " The Mosses of Alaska," by 

 J. Cardot and I. Thcriot ; " Alaskan Species of Sphagnum," by 

 William Trelease (determinations, by Warnstorf) ; " Hcpaticae of 

 Ala.ska," by Alexander W. P2vans ; " The Ferns and Fern Allies 

 of Alaska," by William Trelease. The papers on the Algae, 

 Hepaticae and mosses were originally published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Washington Academy of Sciences and are here 

 reprinted from the same electrotj'pc plates, bracketed figures 

 indicating the original pagination. 



