volume of the memoirs of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 

 Stockholm, no. 5, issued in 1876. 



Second, Beitrage zur Jura-Flora Ost-Sibiriens uu.l des Amur- 

 land,-, is from the memoirs of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 

 of St. Petersburg, vol. xxii, issued in 1876. 



Third, A small part, with only two plates, Ueber die Planzen- 

 Versteinerungen Von Ando in Norwegen, apparently has not else- 

 where appeared. 



This East Siberian Jurassic flora is rich in Gingkos (seven 

 ■peraesj, with some allied Taxineous genera, as well as some 

 . more Abietinece, and three Monocotyledons (Pamhtina>). 

 _< 'i deposits n !'< nvd to that era, fiimi-h six or seven 

 species or forms of Gingko, three Pines, and a sort of Bamboo; 

 the Cretaceous, three or four Pines, Sequoias, a Torreya, etc. ; and 

 *li' ! Mio,-ene li :l . 'nisnrfhn,,, i,!.; r t .>■//■ -W, Suptnhi, ''>/]» r<>8, 

 Carex, Maianthemum, Alisma, seven Poplars, two Alders, three 

 Hazels, a Hornbeam, a Beech, four Oaks, an Elm, a Plane-tree, 

 an Ivy, five species of Comics, two of Nj/mt. and a .Yy.-«»//»//#, 

 two ,.f Mi,/noi;,i, a Pnrrntthi. a Tilt ft, three Maples, a Kcelreutera, 

 three Hawthorns, and a veritable fossil strawberry ! a. g. 



3. Proe>,,. ■:,„.* of t/» X'--vt s<;>fi<i T„^>f"te 



of Natural Scr'e„>-r. vol. i\ . part 2, 1877.— This part is rather rich 

 hotanically. Professor Sommers institutes an elaborate comparison 

 between the flora of Nova Scotia and that of Colorado. Rev. E. 

 - an intere<tin- and readable account of the F< ni> of 

 A ova Scotia. Prof. Lawson, in notes upon some Nova Seotijn 

 plants, takes up the Calluna vulgaris question, e; inm-i f - :ie 

 known stations in the provinces, and tie cin unst m« • and condi- 

 tion of most of them; and conclude^ that while one or two of 

 them may be artificial, " it has W indigenous 



1 "that the various trad it inn* - ■' ^ ; " n - 1 ".° l 



the heather, are not unlikely to have been suggested ! ;• t! ■ U-sire 

 I for the presence of what ~ :,rl >' :l 



toreign plant, rather than bv actual historical facts." I here are 

 several con, to PJ,o,h>,l „.7r„n :,.;.,-, n.u,,,, 



i limit inNovaScoti 

 Professor So, , ue of the plants of the Province. 



,"" l,ur w>r almost half a e< !,1IU "* * TTif 



last. She was born Mav 1 1 1 77-! An authenticated copy of the 

 register of her baptism was printed ii rh. I n don Times (which 

 fas been skeptical about ft ;in '^erest.ng 



°">graphical notice. There is no room for doubt that, if she had 



Lady Smith, the widow of Sir James Edward Sn.it: : ,d hi- 

 h! on the third <<i February 

 Vn authenticated copy of the 



_ s 



survived three months longer, she would have bt 



one not only lived long but enjoyed life to the 1 



Jar and firm hand, It least up to her hundred 



«ght of late failed only so far that she was unable longer >u *~- 



? gaide her pen ; « he? hearing was at worst only a little hard 



*» **h were almost perfect, and her memory was nearly umm- 



P air ed. Since Dr. Torrey's death, probably the only surviving 



