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of late his health had deteriorated to an extent that gave his 
Graminum. Although until recently his studies in botany were 
pursued in the precarious intervals of an active professional life, 
necessitating frequent changes of abode under widely different 
climates, he had mastered his favorite department, so that no one 
living kne ass well, or wa competent to treat the 
whole order systematically. Of independent publication he had 
done little, except to bring out a monograph e bamboo tri 
‘from active service, with honors well earned by arduous an 
splendid service, he devoted the remainder of his life to a revision 
i Ca 
Gen. Munr i 
very distinct genus which commemorates his botanical services, 
unroa squarrosa of Torrey, is one of the Buffalo grasses of our 
western plains.* A. G. 
11. Crustacea of Mexico and Central America.—Mission Scien- 
tifique au Mexique et dans l Amérique Centrale, publié par orare 
du Ministre de l’Instruction Publique. tudes sur les Xy 
et les Crustacés de la Région Mexicaine, par M. ALpHonse MIN 
Epwarps. 4to, Paris: 4° livraison, pp. 121-184, 9 plates, 1878; 
5° et 6¢ livraisons, pp. 185-264, 19 plates, 1879.—The earlier 
parts of this magnificent work were noticed in vol. xi of this Jour 
part contains the last of the Mithracinw, the Micippine, Libinine, 
. . : . hra) and 
ecord. It deserves a more extended notice than the space a 
my disposal in these pages permits. 
The nine families of Oxyrhynques (Maioidea) include 58 gener 
and 150 species; 11 of the genera and 30 of the species are NeW, 
and over 80 of the species are figured. The Portuniens In¢ - 
g and 28 speci i 7 
half the species are figured. The generic grouping of the Portu 
* Published in the fourth volume of the U. 8. Pacific Railway Expedition eek 
ports; erroneously printed Monroa. There is also a mistake in saying that er 
Munro was in the East India Company’s service, though he served long 
bravely in India, 
