4938 Scientific Intelligence. 
Catalogus nage in Nova Cesarea Repertarum.—This 
is the title on the cover. The title page, all eyes is “ Catalogue 
of Plants pwwhie ainouk cultivation in the State of New Jer- 
sey, with a specific description of all the species of Violet found 
therein, Directions for sipenren tel Ba Labeling and Presery- 
ing Botanical Specimens, and a ription of suitable i tsi 
therefor; with suggestions to Tea mans rosecuting the study o 
Botany; to which is added Directions for commencing the study 
of Botany; a also a Directory of living Botanists of Nort mer- 
ica and the West Indies. By Oliver R. Willis, Ph.D., Instructor 
of Natural ar in the Alexander Institute. Revised and 
enJarged edition, (A. 5. Barnes & Co.: k, &e.” 8vo 
pp. 88.) This full title leaves no need and little room for any 
particular petit of this compendious volume. It lacks only a 
date, which we may put at 1877, and it has an Index. The pret- 
ace to the fier edition bears the date 1874. We gave a notice of 
the original — at the time; the present edition is much en- 
the ditficulties and labor incident to the preparation of a w 
like this,” adds that, “ consequently I expect to be judged with 
lenity and criticised with ¢ charity.” We see no good reason for 
disappointing his expectations. We will add—since the title 
page does not mention it—that, while the catalogue stops with 
the Lycopodiacea, it is supplemented by one of marine Alge, by 
Samuel Ashmead, and that there is a monograph of the forms or 
varieties of — ruit of one of the States’ staple products, the 
cranberry. New Jersey has a rich flora, as is well known. This 
catalogue enumerates 1,603 species of Phxnogamous lants, and 
states that there are tifty-seve n first class and — sc opateah second 
class trees. _ this posi 27 eee speci G. 
4, Sir Josepy Darton Hoox ached bis home at iow on 
the 19th of Setiber, after an msaally long voyage of almost a 
fortnight. In his rapid reconnoissance of the botanical features of 
the United States he traveled over between nine and ten thousand 
miles of American territory, asoended some of the highest moun- 
tains, and botanized with a vigor and industry which he could 
hardly — mig in his bears days. The time—all too 
visit as soon as ossible, and then ie endeavor to see ibe 
of the Atlantic States (its institutions as well as its natural pt 
ductions), and also of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern Calitor- 
nia, which are now becoming readily and promptly accessible to 
the rapid-moving traveler. 
Nature for October 25 contains an excellent steel portrait of 
Sir Joseph Hooker as one of the series of Scientific Worthies; the 
