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10. Giomale di Mineralogies Cristedlografia e Petrografia. 

 Diretto dal Dr. F. Sansoni. Vol. I, Fasc. 1. Milan, 1890. 

 (Ulrico Hoepli.) — Mineralogists will be interested in the estab- 

 lishment of a new journal in Italy devoted to Mineralogy, Crystal- 

 lography and Petrography. It is published at Milan under the 

 able editorship of Dr. Francesco Sansoni, of the University of 

 Pavia, well known as an active workei'. The first number con- 

 tains an exhaustive article by Artini upon the Sardinian leadhill- 

 ite, with two plates, one by Sansoni upon the crystallography of 

 a series of organic compounds, and others by Boeris, Tognini 

 Melzi, besides notes and reviews. 



III. Botany and Zoology. 



1. Die naturlichen Pfleinzenfeimilien, Nos. 39 and 40. — We 

 have had frequent occasion to call the attention of our readers to 

 the many excellencies of this comprehensive work under the 

 editorship of Professors Engler and Prantl. These numbers 

 latest at hand justify fully all words of commendation we have 

 bestowed upon the treatise. The engravings are clear and very 

 telling, and, as in previous numbers, for the greater part, original. 

 Schonland treats of the Order Candolleacas, Hock, of Calycereae, 

 and Hoffmann, of Composite. In No. 40, Wille takes up, with a 

 good degree of fullness, certain of the lower Algse. 



It gives us pleasure to urge upon our readers the request made 

 by the editors, that persons who possess pictures which exhibit 

 the characteristics of type-plants will kindly lend them for the 

 purpose of having them reproduced as illustrations in the work. 



G. L. G. 



2. Zoe, a Biological Journal. San Francisco, published 

 monthly ($2.00 per annum). — One can hardly help wishing that 

 the founders of this new journal might have fixed upon some 

 name more attractive. Aside, however, from its name, this first 

 number of the new journal is attractive and promises well. 



Restricting our notice to the botanical articles, we may call 

 attention to the following. Dr. Harkness leads off with a well- 

 considered paper on the Nomenclature of Organic Life. His 

 views are conservative, and, we may say, conciliatory. We wish 

 sincerely that his paper might find a larger circle of readers than 

 it is like to have in the initial number of a new magazine. Mr. 

 Brandegee speaks of an arborescent Polygala. In the canons of 

 the Sierra de Laguna, Lower California, Polygala apopetcda 

 " acquires its greatest development, and becomes a small tree, 

 having a trunk and spreading top, and equaling in height the 

 surrounding Acacias and Lysilomas. , ' > Mr. S. B. Parish has the 

 first part of a paper on the naturalized plants of Southern Cali- 

 fornia. His views in regard to discriminating between native 

 and naturalized plants are sound, and, if carried out further in his 

 work, in subsequent communications, will result in giving us 

 information of the highest value. 



