Miscellaneous Intelligence. 79 
petale ete i Hatin and still more Calycee and Acalycec, in 
abeyance. All this is, in a good degree, a matter of taste and 
Sendai, in respect to fo which a botanist who has done and is do- 
ing so much, so single-handed, and so disinterestedly for the ire 
on the Aus er continent, bars be allowed to have dicain much 
an own way, subject, of course, to differences of opin 
“aig sat indie oe the Steanier “ Blake.” — The Bulletin ot Abe 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. X, No. 5, is occupied wit 
a Report on the Fishes, by G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. 
April, 1883. 
IV. MiscELLANEOUS ScIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
American Journal of Science and Arts.—In a notice of the 
desea of Professor Kirtland in volume xv of this Journal (1878), 
the remark was made that he was the last of its i ato sub- 
eater Dr. Isaac Lea, of Philadelphia, vee recently se 
copies of his early correspondence with Professor Silliman, in 
with a list of subscribers—all members of the Academy of Nat- 
ural Sciences—which he obtained for him before the first number 
was issued. As the facts have more than a private interest, we 
here publish the list of names obtained by Dr. Lea, in response 
to Professor Silliman’s scien to him, dated New Haven, April 3, 
1818—which reads as follow 
“Sir: Will you pardon Abe liberty I take in se trina your 
kind countenance and favor for the Journal and your contribu- 
tions to its pages, provide sa the plan meets your approbation 
(Signed) Very respectfully, your much obliged SmLuiMa 
n account of the plan accompanied the letter—in nearly the 
form in wera it was afterward published in the first number of 
the Journ 
The Sint i subscribers is as follows: 
Isaac Le R. E. Grierirs, 
Epwarp CLARK, G. ORD 
C. D. Metes, ; Wm. McCrvre 
JACOB PEIRCE, Wm. Mason Waites 
Sam HAZARD. T. : 
Aa AINES, Joan P. WETHERILL, 
ISAIAH LUEINS, ‘ R. M. Patterson. 
r. Lea is now in his 92d year (having been born in March of 
1792) and is still young in his zeal for science and scientific work. 
He remarks in his recent letter, that he was informed by Professor 
Silliman that the reception of ‘the list of names was the turning 
i he thought that if a person ‘whom he did not 
ae with him; 
now personally took so much interest in the proposed sl Soa 
he would have enough so to —- — 
2. Note on the Fart rthqua 
a. st, Professor of Mavieat History, iP tccmet a Carace 
(communisated in a letter dated Caraccas, May 22d, 1883, ee os = 
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araceas; by : 
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