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accompanied by Mr. Harry Baker of the Garden. Mr. A. E. 

 Casse, manager of a plantation near Cape Haitien, is to cooperate 

 with the party. 



The " Flora of Pennsylvania " by Thomas Conrad Porter, 

 D.D., LL.D., late professor of botany in Lafayette College, was 

 issued on August 15. John Kunkel Small, Ph.D., curator of 

 the museums and herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 has edited the work and supplied keys to the orders, families, 

 genera and species. The general distribution of each species is 

 given and the distribution by counties in Pennsylvania. The 

 work forms an octavo volume of 362 pages. Ginn & Co., of 

 New York and Boston, are the publishers. 



We regret to note in recent newspapers announcements of the 

 death of the following American botanists : Mr. Isaac H olden, of 

 Bridgeport, Conn., well known as a student of the algae ; Hamil- 

 ton G. Timberlake, assistant professor of botany in the University 

 of Wisconsin ; Dr. A. Gattinger, of Nashville, Tenn., author of 

 " The Flora of Tennessee and a Philosophy of Botany " ; Hamil- 

 ton L. Smith, LL.D., formerly professor of physics and astron- 

 omy in Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., author of important 

 papers on the diatoms ; Mr. Charles J. Sprague, for many years 

 curator of the herbarium of the Boston Society of Natural History 

 and a student of lichens and fungi ; and Miss Sadie F. Price, of 

 Bowling Green, Kentucky, author of " The Fern-Collector's 

 Handbook and Herbarium," "Flora of Warren County, Ken- 

 tucky," etc. 



