CONTENTS. 



A Season's Botanizing Prof. J. W. Chickering, Jr. 151 



The Tasmanian Wolf G. Archie Slock-well, M. D. 155 



How to Start A Natural History Society Science Gossip. 1 61 



Additions to Flora Columbiana. — Season of 1877 . .Naturalists' Club. 164 



A Mocking Bird Put to Shame Mary E. Banning. 165 



On a Remarkable New Generic Type of Characins . Prof. Theo. Gill. 167 



How ro Collect Sea Mosses- From " Louise and /." . . Chas R. Dodge. 168 



Field Record 170 



St. Louis and Botany. — Second Blooming. — Addition to the List of Dis- 

 trict Birds. 

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FLORA COLUMBIANA. 



A catalogue of plants growing without cultivation in the District of 

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 members of the Potomac Side Naturalist Club, in which 1,195 species 

 of plants are enumerated. Several pages of addenda have been added, 

 bringing the work up to date, and with the addition of the mosses of 

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Catalogue of Birds of the District of Columbia. 



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