158 Scientific Intelligence. 
eral habitat or geographical range is given; the printing and 
proof-reading appear to be well done; and “ the compilers [may 
well] believe that they are supplying a want which has long been 
felt by American botanists.” We hope and may expect that we 
shall have something more than a com ile d catalogue before long, 
although the death of Mr. Sullivant has greviously postponed the 
desired consummation. A catalogue like this is always useful, 
. G 
8. Botanical Haploration wc the little-known West India Isl- 
ands.—Baron Eggers, the commander of the Danish forces in the 
Danish West Indies, yer ten at t. Thomas, has issued a circu- 
lar inviting subscribers for sets of botanical specimens, sections of 
woo its, etc., in view of a complete investigation of the peat 
any of those West India Islands which have been very little 
plored, at least in the present century, and which doubtless con- 
tain much that is new to science. Hayti and Dominica are partic- 
ularly in view, also Porto Rico. It is jotendéd that the specimens 
shall be well studied before distribution, named, and made up into 
uniform sets. As announced in the circular, the price of botani- 
cal specimens was fixed at $12.50 the hundred for Phenogams, and 
g 
$10 the century. Botanists should eet gal ie oe | — 
Baron Nggers, St. Thomas, me West Indie 
9. Note to Dr. C. A. 8 paper in Salonis xx of this Toe 
nal; b R ELLsworru Guth (Communicated. )—In Dr. C. 
White's interesting communication to this J ournal, vol. xx, July, 
pre pp. 44-49, “On the Antiquity of certain Sabordinaea Types 
Fresh-water and Land Mollusca,” occur t y* alight errors 
, is species is not found west of t 
fact is important in the get of the fe este, distribution of 
the recent Unionide slight error in the mination, or the 
nomenclature, of the species placed as aden ic with U. End- 
na White oceurs. Doctor White emma means Unio gibbosus 
: us was described by Spengler in “Skrivter af 
Waseabiatotie Selskabet, & ‘vOl ili (1792:) and the habitat given is 
Tranquebar. 
Dexter, Iowa, July 6, 1880. 
