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journal in typographical appearance and dress, as well as in 

 matter and handling, is as great as its increase in size in this its 

 eleventh year. It is wonderful that it can give so much for the 

 subscription price of two dollars a year. a. g. 



4. The Cayuga Flora : Part I. A Catalogue of the Phai- 

 nogamia growing without cultivation in the Cayuga Lake Basin; 

 by William K. Dudley. Ithaca, 1886. 8vo., pp. 132 and an 

 index. — This is the first part of vol. xi of the Bulletin of Cornell 

 University, which is now revived in affectionate and revered 

 memory of the late Professor Hartt, who originated it in the year 

 1874. It promises to be a worthy continuation of a series 

 nobly begun, and Professor Dudley has evidently done his work 

 conscientiously and well. The plan, the typography, and the 

 treatment are to be commended. The introductory account of 

 the Cayuga flora, its topography (illustrated by two maps), 

 statistics and the history of exploration of the district are quite 

 interesting and would tempt us to some detailed notice, if time 

 and space permitted. 



The reference to John Bartram as the first botanical explorer 

 of the region recalls a fact, recorded in this Journal a few years 

 ago, which might have been noticed under Selinum Canadense. 

 For this is the " Athamantha Chinensis" of LinnaBus; and the 

 solution of his riddle, u Habitat * ■ ■ Chinensem dixit Bar- 

 thram, qui semina misit ex Virginia," is this. Bartram picked 

 the seed probably in the neighborhood of Ithaca and sent it to 

 Linnaeus as from the " Genessee country" (the general name of 

 that part of New York in those day^s), and Linnoeus, or the 

 Upsala gardener, somehow mistook Bartram's Genesee for Chi- 

 nese". A. G. 



5. Catalogue of the Plants in the Herbarium of the College 

 of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan. P. Maruya & 

 Co. 2546 (1886). — A handsome volume of 287 pages, in small 

 octavo, with a few pages of corrections, with an explanatory 

 preface in Japanese, the botanical names of the species and 

 authorities in Roman type, the popular names and other matter 

 in the Japanese character. The name of the compiler (evidently 

 no mean botanist) is not given. We receive the interesting vol- 

 ume " with the compliments of H. Watanabe, President of the 

 University," to whom we would offer thanks and congratula- 

 tions. It is interesting to receive upon the same day these con- 

 tributions to botany from the Cornell and from the Tokyo 

 Universities. a. g. 



IV. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The Baces of Britain, a Contribution to the Anthropology 

 of western Europe ; by Johx Beddoc. Bristol, England. 272 pp. 

 8vo, 1885. (Trubner & Co., London.) — The title of this work 

 hardly gives an idea of its scope. It is a learned discussion of the 

 facts connected with western Europe as well as British races, 

 prehistoric and historic, Roman, Saxon, Frisian, Germanic, Danish, 

 Norman, etc., on the origin of the race peculiarities in Britain. 



