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memoirs, some here first printed, some extra issues from academic 
transactions and the like. The first paper, on the Miocene Flora 
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Siberian and Eastern Asian fossil plants, are from the Memoirs 
of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg; the remaining two 
are from the Memoirs of the Royal Swedish Society at Stockholm, 
and illustrate the Miocene flora of Sachalin and the Cordaites of 
Nova Zembla. ere are numerous figures. The first named 
paper most interests us, by the announcement of the ee of 
the remains of a Miocene Spruce of the 7suga group, i. e., 
to our Prato yess k Spruce; also of the veritable Silver Fir. of 
Europe! A. G. 
ing Forest, and how best to deal with it, is an article in 
the Fortnightly Review for November last, and separately a 
ALFRED R. Wattacz. It urges—now w that the ground w 
this ancient forest in the neighborhood . London covered, and 
in part still covers, is consecr; or by act of Prop for the 
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are maintained in reusut articles of this Jo uinadi as ane 
ian of _ poverty of oe in sag trees, in in comparison 
America and Eastern Asia, and her own Tertiar 
j “Die Algenjiora des Weissen Meeres ; b ; Dr. yaar Gon 
(Extr. from Mem. Imp. Acad. Sciences, St. Petersburg, vol. xxvi, 
no. 1.).—-The above named paper is the first detailed account of 
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Ehodophyllis veprecula Ag. is referred to Ft. dichotoma Lepechin. 
“he paper contains valuable references - the species of — 
in = St. Petersburg Academy’s herbarium. Ww. G 
North American Fungi: Fungi ideeladal, Gatien I 
ca II; by H. W. Ravenet and M. C. Cooke. North Ameri- 
