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The element of sameness that characterizes these accounts, 
not conspicuous when scattered through the volumes of the 
cyclopedia, but very evident when they are brought together 
as has been done here, is an added proof, if any were néeded, 
of their spurious character. 
And here we have a detailed enumeration of 69 titles, or 125 
volumes in all, of important—some, indeed, monumental— 
works on America, not one of which is to be found in any of the 
great libraries of the world. Surely further comment is super- 
fluous. 
JoHN HENDLEY BARNHART. 
ADDISONIA: ITS PROGRESS AND PUBLICATION 
The second part of the fourth volume of the beautiful quarterly 
publication, Addisonia, devoted in accordance with the terms of 
the bequest of its founder, Judge Addison Brown, to the illustra- 
tion by colored plates of the plants of the United States and 
its territorial possessions and of other plants flowering in the 
New York Botanical Garden or its conservatories, appeared in 
June. Each part of the work contains ten colored plates, and 
the total number of plates issued is now one hundred and forty; 
they are accompanied by descriptive letter-press. Miss Mary 
E. Eaton has made nearly all of the paintings:reproduced and 
has also painted some four hundred plants not yet published, 
the illustrations required for another ten years of the journal 
being thus in hand. 
Judge Brown’s bequest contains the provision that the work 
is to be aided by subscriptions. These subscriptions by libraries 
and individuals now number about 240 at ten dollars annually, 
and thus yield about $2,400 a year; the income of the Addison 
Brown fund, established by the bequest, is about $900 per year, 
and sales of back volumes yield about $300 a year. The annual 
income is thus about $3,600 and up to the present time this has 
been sufficient for the publication. Recently, however, the 
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