156 Scientific Intelligence. 
oe esieanga Phytographie Australie, contulit Liber Baro 
— NaNDUs DE Muriter. Vol. IX. M elbourne, 1876.—This 
ninth ici bears testimony to the untiring industr y, zeal, and 
ability with which Dr. Von Miller kee eps up his investigations 
into the botany of the adopted country for which he has done so 
much in various ways; and his s Descriptive Notes on Papuan 
Plants, and other publications upon the botany of the Pacific 
Islands, show how, from his vantage ground, he w idens the already 
ample field, making the most of opportunity, ever active him- 
—_ and inciting and a chine the activity and advantages of 
ot 
4, Flora grantor, ed. Auc. Guin. Ere ean Cp ‘om- 
Vol. vi, part 2, with 398 pages of letterpress and 102 plates. The 
enlightened and active-minded emperor, Dom Pedro, may be well 
pleased at having _? a flora of his empire, and at the —_ 
of its early peeries 
eis of Michigan at the Centennial pe 
sition ; by Prof J. W. Beat, of the State Agricultural College.— 
A pamphlet t of 16 pages, 8vo, giving an account, not only of the 
collection exhibited, but. of the trees of the State, both the com- 
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trees: “At Clam Lake an old lumberman informed me that he 
could furnish — of pine 175 feet long and not over an feet 
through at the butt. He had cut them 200 feet lon ng.” 
: tré of Iowa, a catalogue of the 
Phenogamous plants; by G. C. Arravr. '1876,—A neat cata- 
for) 
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logue; with an appendix containing apie, rin generic and 
i the sy detected in Towa which are not in Gray’s 
eg twenty or so in number, sei good notes ae some 
a en ocust invasion of 1874,—Mr, G. M. Dawson bas pabiished 
@ paper in the Eepedion Naturalist on the Locust invasion of t 
Salah big of the United States. He remarks that they, pee 
10 Manitoba in 1818, and from there have caused seri 
travel ™ a certain direction, and the mecttiel peg Ww 
them to a wind favoring their intention.” One 
