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regions, from Arkansas and Texas to the Pacific Coast. Their 
contributions, which are hereby solicited, will be repaid in kind. 
Botanists who are willing to extend their aid and who are de- 
sirous of details, may communicate with the writer of this article, 
at Cambridge. The present fascicle, a thin folio pale is de- 
voted to the #. vulgaris type, in its various forms good wood- 
cut figure : corolla and stamens is given on the leading ticket of 
each specie 
Til. MisckLuANEous ScreNTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
The British Association at Montreal.—The meeting of the 
British orgie eae oe Montreal will commence on Wednesday, 
Augus e reception rooms will be open on the Monday 
siveline at 1 P, M., aes on the following days at'8 A. M., for the 
issue of tickets to members and associates (and ladies), and for 
supplying information as to lodgings, ete. he general secre- 
the executive committee is Mr. J. D. Crawford. The 
tickets will contain a map of Montreal, and particulars as to the 
rooms .appointed for sectional and other m eetings. A ge eneral 
meeting will be held Weditaday evening, opens at 8, at which 
President Cayley will resign the chair and the Right t Hon. Lord 
Rayleigh, President-elect, will assume the baal de tesk and deliver 
an address. n Friday evening a will be a discourse by Pro- 
fessor W. G. Adams, ni on the evening of the following Monday 
a'discourse on “The modern Gaistiwes vs in researches on the least 
and } owest forms of life, ” by the Rev. W. H. Dallinger: on Sat- 
urday evening a lecture on comets, for the citizens of ntreal, 
will be delivered by Professor R. S. Bal 1, of Dublin University 
‘Contributors of papers to the ater & are required (ander an 
arrangement dating from 1871), to send to the “ General Secreta- 
ries of the British ‘Association, dee be Aiberarie street, London, W., 
an abstract of the paper, suitable for insertion in the eraigactious 
of the association, together with the paper, with a sieesoiesie as. 
for whic 
to the section Ww it is intended, that the committee may 
decide, in advance of the time of meeting, as to the acceptance 
and we of reading. 
ocal Executive Committee has issued the following ps 
aed "with regard to membership and the enrolling of new me 
neh 
(1) Life members for a wnat oedema of $50, which entitles 
them to all the privileges o mbership for life, and to receive 
. fe a which the sais ction may publish after the date of 
me) aries members for a _— of $10 the first year (85 
of which i is the entrance fee), and $5 each consecutive year there- 
ssociate members for a payment of $5. Associates are 
