132 Scientific Intelligence. 
it would set a bad precedent to alter it. Moreover as the ch in Spanish 
is not pronounced as in English, e. g., in church, no advantage would be 
gained by the alteration. 
Prof, Karl Kock of Berlin, Some Propositions with respect to System- 
eneric names would be hindered by the retention of the original de- 
scriber’s nagne suffixed to the species when transferred to another genus; 
that a system more prompt and effectual than that of Walper’s Anneles 
for collecting the scattered literature might be arranged, by a local botan- 
ical committee in every country to collect its scattered materials in the 
way of published names ‘nd descriptions, and a general editorship in 
some European capital to digest and publish them ; “that a botanico-hor- 
families, and work up the new plants introduced into cultivation, thus 
dividing the field of labor as astronomers have already divided the fir- 
mament. 
Prof. Lecoq, of France, On the Migration of Mountain Plants. ‘The 
object of the author is to show that the mountains of Auvergne have re- 
ceived their alpine plants by oe agency of birds and of wind, and not 
by a gradual migration <r a supposed“ glacial period, the existence 
of which he denies altogethe 
Prof. Schultz atialocisines On the presence — source of Nitrogen 
in turf and peat, with reference to its use as a manure for plants. Hav- 
ing so far misunderstood “ Ingenhauss, afiasite: Boussingault,” an 
other sensible vegetable chemists as to suppose them to maintdin that 
because “the mould of the soil is derived from the plants rete oP PE 
itself” He should g° on and tell us where and how these animals ob- 
tained their nitrogen 
7. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoslogy at 
ollege. No, If. North American Acalephe. By ALEXAN- 
which it emanates, and its author. The typography is excellent, and the 
wood-cuts, three hundred and sixty in number, are finely executed and 
