76 Scientific Intelligence. 



any products of crystallization render its comparison with fulgu- 

 rite not merely admissible but possibly instructive." 



The other localities of the material are tuffs in the neighbor- 

 hood of Mt. Dore les Bains, Pessy in the Auvergne and one or 

 two other localities. 



16. Fifth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist of Cali- 

 fornia ; by H. G. Hanks. 235 pp. Svo. Sacramento, 1885. — 

 The mineralogical reports of California follow each other with 

 admirable regularity and pi'omptness. The present volume is 

 largely filled with an account of the mineral exhibits from the 

 different parts of the country at the New Orleans Exposition of 

 last year. 



III. Botany. 



1. Manual of the Botany {Phwnogamia and Pteridophytd) 

 of the Rocky Mountain Region, from New Mexico to the British 

 Boundary. By John M. Coulter, Ph.D., Professor of Botany 

 in Wabash College and Editor of the Botanical Gazette. Ivison, 

 Taylor, Blakeman & Co. New York and Chicago, 1885. pp. 

 452. — The country lying west of the States which border the 

 Mississippi and east of the great interior basin is becoming popu- 

 lous and full of schools. The Rocky Mountains, from the Yellow- 

 stone Park at the north to Colorado and the cooler parts of New 

 Mexico, abound with intelligent summer visitors. The floral 

 vegetation is copious and varied, and mostly with a character of 

 its own. " This manual is intended to do for its own range what 

 has been for a long time so admirably done for the Northeastern 

 States by Gray's Manual." It is modeled upon that handy 

 volume, with certain features caught from the Synoptical Flora. 

 As was proper, it is the work of Professor Coulter, whose earlier 

 essay in this held was the Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado, 

 the most interesting and now best -known portion of Rocky 

 Mountain Botany ; and, as was natural, he has had some help 

 from specialists, such as Mr. Bebb for the Willows (which amount 

 to only 16 species), and Professor L. H. Bailey for the Carices, 

 which mount up to 87 species, requiring very particular treatment. 



This manual appears to be very well done ; and we may con- 

 gratulate the author upon the good presentation he has made in 

 thus opening up a new field. The book was greatly needed, both 

 for schools and for resident botanists and tourists. To accommo- 

 date the latter a tourist's edition is announced, on thin paper, 

 with narrow margins and flexible leather covers. For educational 

 purposes, it is to be bound up with Gray's Lessons, by the same 

 publishers, so as to make one school-book serve. So we may now 

 look for a rapid development of botanical study in this region of 

 great floral attraction. Apropos to this use of Professor Coulter's 

 work, we regret that he has not accentuated the names of received 

 genera and species. It would not have cost great trouble, so much 

 of the work being done to his hand in the eastern Manual and in the 



