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THE WEST-AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Memorial of George Bentham, 

 by Asa Gray. From the American 

 Journal of Science, February 1885. 



American association for the 

 advancement of science. Constitu- 

 tion, list of meetings, officers and 

 members for the thirty-third meet- 

 ing, in Philadelphia, September, 

 1884 



The Methods of Statistics. By 

 Dr. Franklin B. Hough. Proc. 

 Am. A. A. Sci, 1884. 



Botanical Contributions. By 

 Asa Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 

 Arts and Sci., XX. Contains a 

 revision of some Borragineous 

 genera, and descriptions of thirty- 

 nine new species of gamopetalse, 

 with remarks on others. 



Contributions to American Bot- 

 any, XII. By Sereno Watson. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., 

 XX. Contains a history and re- 

 vision of the roses of North Amer- 

 ica and descriptions of some new 

 species of plants, chiefly from our 

 western territories. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Only about 21,000 periodicals 

 published in the world. Subscrip- 

 tions taken at this office for any 

 or all. 



Dr. Parry is now in England, 

 and intends visiting Paris and 

 Geneva in May, returning to 

 America in August. 



L. Belding, Superintendent of 

 the Pacific District of the Ornith- 

 ologists Union, is intending to vis- 

 it the mountains of Lower Cali- 

 fornia again this spring. 



Prof. Asa Gray, in company 

 with his wife and Prof. W. G. Far- 



low, visited the city of Mexico on 

 their way to Southern California, 

 reaching San Diego on the 19th 

 inst. 



The third lecture under the aus- 

 pices of the Society of Natural 

 History was delivered by Mr. Stu- 

 art Stanley on the evening of Feb- 

 ruary 26. He gave an instructive 

 account of the Soudan and of the 

 present condition of affairs in that 

 country. 



BOTANICAL NOTES. 



Isoetes of the check-list of 

 Southern California plants is con- 

 sidered a new species. 

 . Abutilon Streetsii, Watson, ined. 

 of the same list proves identical 

 with an Arizona species which 

 Prof. Watson now publishes as A. 

 Lemmoni. 



California Erychraese are want- 

 ed for which a liberal exchange 

 will be given. Thirty-five speci- 

 mens of every species except E. ve- 

 nusta and E. Douglasii are desired 



Deschampsia gracilis and Bro- 

 mus Orcuttianus are described as 

 new species from San Diego, by 

 Dr. Geo. Yasey in the February 

 number of the Botanical Gazette. 



Many aquatic plants are mak- 

 ing no appearance this spring, 

 owing to the lack of rain, and 

 1885 is now likely to prove a 

 botanical failure as regards the 

 coast region of California. Many 

 of the species that do make an ap- 

 pearance are stunted or rare and 

 later than usual in blooming. 



There are more than 250 bo- 

 tanical names in the Old Testa- 

 ment. — Littell's Living Age. 



