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are often either poorly expressed or are inconclusive as, for 
example: “No special reason can be deduced, therefore, why 
the present flora of Greenland should not have survived the 
Ice Age in that country, particularly as we have some grounds 
for the belief that the land in parts of the Arctic Regions then 
stood higher than it does now, and that consequently more land 
was available for plant life." 
By careful reading of the entire work the botanist will find 
a few pages and some stray paragraphs here and there relating 
to the floras of Greenland, Alaska, the pine-barrens of the 
eastern United States, Florida, Bermuda, the Galapagos Islands, 
Central America, and South America; but the entire presentation 
and discussion of the facts relating to the botany and paleobotany 
of the latter continent occupies only four pages, and the other 
regions mentioned receive even less attention, relatively as well 
as actually, so far as the importance of their floral elements are 
concerned. If it is conceded that the title of a book should be 
truly indicative of its contents, this one should be changed to 
“Distribution and Origin of the American Fauna with Incidental 
References to the Flora." 
ARTHUR HOLLICK 
NEWS ITEMS 
During the past summer Mr. W. W. Eggleston spent May and 
June collecting between Greycliff and Livingston, Montana, 
July and early August in Sevier Forest, southern Utah, and the 
remainder of the summer about the head of Lake Peud d'Oreillo, 
Idaho. Mr. Eggleston returned to Washington the latter part 
of September. 
On October 14 Dr. Oliver A. Farwell delivered a lecture before 
the Scientific Institute of Detroit on the “ Application of Botany 
to Pharmacy.” 
Mr. F. W. Pennell, of the University of Pennsylvania, has 
been traveling through the southeastern states this autumn col- 
lecting Gerardia and related genera. 
