324 Scientific Intelligence. 
As to Dr. Palmer’s ee not only are his plants nearly all 
determined, but also those of a considerable collection made by 
cited i in considerable part. A small collection sent by Professor 
Dugés from farther south (Guanajuato) is also reported on. 
that _ two Contributions — parts x and xi—are of very 
‘great sae ortance in the study of the botany of the northern 
‘States "of Mexico, a district which is becoming m ore and more 
open to. American explorers. r. Palmer’s A sonar collections, 
and those of his forerunner Dr. Gregg, were made in 
Leon and Coahuila. Chihuahua is now a ‘acommable: and to 
_ the western part of that State, and to adjacent Sonora, which 
ae may be reached in time, we look for the _ interesting se 
accessions to the botany of the Mexican fronti 
_ 4, Professor Herman Miurer. The Fertilization of Flower 
translated and edited by D’Arcy W. Tuompson, B.A., et ae 
a preface by Cuartes Darwin. With illustrations. London: 
Maemillan & Co. 1883, pp. 669, 8vo.—The original German 
lition was of the year 1873, and in this new one edited as well 
lish and ssp oe sae a larg e mass is 
author’s recent 
last. A ‘aieaks and we e judge a aerate loss, for though e be- 
lieve he was not young, he cannot have been old. His carliost 
published png isi of which we have record rs not date back of 
is own y gto date of 1869. Meanwhile, by his most laborious and 
patient observations, by his great acuteness in interpretation and 
research, and by his studies of the modifications of insects in rela- 
1 in our day eee “the Knight-Darwin law,” and the | 
tion to flowers, no less than those of flowers to insects, he had 
ich ws : : rad Spren-— 
e about one hundred years ago, resuscitated and more — 
s death, is restored to Germany mainly by 
nd and Herman a oe 
