436 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
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randegee has been Se interested. The University 
Herbarium, as now enlarged, number a 250,000 sheets, 
a majority of which are mounted in permanent form. The whole 
collection is available for study, and occupies pS st, quarters in 
one of the buildings recently erected on pe University campus. 
Here visiting botanists desiring to study the West American and 
exican flora, or to consult the working bray of the ee 
sity, where Mr. Brandegee has been appointed Honorary Curator 
of the Herbarium 
Pror. ag eons in the New Phytologist of October 81st the 
“recast” of the paper to which we referred in our last issue. He 
prefaces his paper -. a reference to the “ restrictions imposed " 
- 404 will show of what nature these were, and we regret that 
Prof. Oliver, in his own interest, did not impose them on himself, 
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“irrelevancies and innuendoes”’ aad the like. Prof. Oliver sug- 
gests that we were “ misled by a too literal interpretation of figures 
somewhat incautiously employed.” We are glad to believe “that 
his words did not bear their obvious construction; but in an 
address from a presidential chair, when there is no opportunity for 
discussion or correction, we have a right to expect that even 
Ward printed in our present issue. We note, by the way, that Sir 
George King, in the address referred to by Prof. Oliver, did not 
which is not quite the s g. ardeners’ Chronicle of 
Oct. 20 oe irene a the matter i rss a res article which we 
venture to ¢ to Prof. Oliver’s n 
Mr. B. os sad ACKSON points out that : the statement on p. 399 
that there was only one Secretary of the Linnean Society during 
Bentham’s presidency is incorrect; Mr. F. Currey was Botanical 
tary from 1860 to 1880. The fact however remains that 
Bentham did most of the Society’s work so far as botany was 
concerned, 
