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century, the writer then takes up more recent developments 

 No mention is made of the very intimate relations between the 

 Torrey Club and the New York Botanical Garden (not "Botanic 

 Museum"), and of the fact that the president of the former 

 must ipso facto be on the board of managers of the latter. That 

 the Bronx Garden owes its very existence to a movement started 

 in the Club many years ago is a well known piece of historical 

 gossip. His treatment of the Garden itself and of the Club also, 

 is somewhat inadequate, as no mention is made of the work of 

 Murrill, or Hollick, at the former; and it were pertinent to re- 

 mind the writer that there have been two editors of the Bulletin 

 since Dr. Barnhart resigned some years ago as editor-in-chief 

 of the Club. Of a more serious nature is the omission of any 

 mention of the comparatively important floras of Utica, by 

 Harberer, and of Troy, by Wright and another by Eaton; and 

 the inclusion of the inconsequential little pamphlet on the flora 

 of Central Park, New York City, by E. A. Day! Similarly, the 

 failure to mention the work of Stewardson Brown and Miss 

 Keller, on the flora of the vicinity of Philadelphia, is somewhat 

 surprising. 



E. L. Greene's work on the flora of the Rocky Mountains, and 

 Nelson's recent book on that subject (p. 23), are also ignored. 

 Again, Rydberg, in his flora of Montana and the Yellowstone 

 does something more than "give an account of the herbaria 

 consulted, the botanists engaged in field work, and the localities 

 visited." This information is confined to the preface, whereas 

 in the body of the work are such data as a catalog of the plants, 

 with stations cited, together with habitats, altitudinal distribu- 

 tion, etc. Notwithstanding editorial curtailment of space, we 

 should have expected to see mention, at least causally, of the 

 work of LeRoy Abrams in California, of Transeau, Shreve, Can- 

 non and Lloyd in Arizona, and of Von Turckheim and perhaps 

 Werckle in Central America. 



It must not be inferred from this catalog of^^things and names 

 omitted from the history that the work is not without much 

 value, for it is something to have brought together the imposing 

 array of facts and names that Dr. Harshberger has accumulated 



