250 Scientific Intelligence. 
free use of Latin and latinized technical words by direct transfer- 
ence. Botanical French, English, and Italian, are apenseir ta ” 
the German in this respect. Noting that the German of ¢ 
sation inclines to be clear and sententious, while in nated 
psa the words lengthen more and more and the sentences be- 
come badly ig iti our author remarks that recently havin 
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c 
Sclerenchymfisergruppen, Gefissbundentwickelung and — 
lungseigenthiimlichkeit, he asked himself if that was good Germ 
tyle en recollected that Goethe, one of the very g greatest 
opened his Metamorphose der Pflanzen, read a page or so, and 
experienced a relief which he likens ta ‘that felt by a. ‘scutiaed 
Chapter XIX discusses the ropositions to employ letters and 
figures, semecant ot or otherwise, to represent specific and 
generic characters,—repulsive contrivances, to which our author 
lends no ps et nce. 
signs, pagination, typogr aes the twenty-first. ¢ er of titles 
and inde exes; bo th full of interesting details upon which we cannot 
pas althou h we are longing to put in san! 
XII animadverts upon the tende ency of certain 
Fe eeptogataintes to set all botanical th at naught. 
next gives advice about articles in journals, dissertations, and the 
like; the next treats of translations; another, of figures, and 
has ma ny noteworthy remarks; Chapter XXVL Sas auxiliary 
and bibliographical works; and Ch napter XXVII, 
logical table of the progress of phytography, eutaning with fi 
hinese encyclopedia 1000 years before Ch rist, and ending with 
Sachs’ Lehrbuch, 1868-1877. Botanical students will find it very 
ee _ instructive. 
The remaining Chapter begins the second part of the volume, 
Preuves thes "‘Desriptione ; which is principally devoted to herba- 
ria, their history, formation, and management ;—a most important 
chapter, the analysis of whi ch would form an article by itself. 
a rder and n ion i 
ria, with an fodiens of the place where their ‘er tasin or cole 
tions are preserve 
courrence at Newport, R. I, of too sr i Lepore of 
> by A. 
in the docks at Newport, R. L, see specimens, “both full 
grown and young, of Truncatella truncatula and Assiminea 
Grayana. They were associated with Alexia myosotis, A nurid 
maritima, Chernes oblongus, a large species of Ligia, Orchestia 
agilis, and other littoral species. hether these shells have been 
