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  Intelligence. 
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  5. 
  The 
  Missouri 
  Botanical 
  Garden. 
  — 
  The 
  eleventh 
  annual 
  

   report, 
  bearing 
  date 
  Jan. 
  10th, 
  1900, 
  is 
  at 
  hand. 
  Like 
  its 
  recent 
  

   predecessors 
  it 
  contains 
  a 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  officers 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  

   Trustees 
  and 
  the 
  annual 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  Director. 
  From 
  these 
  it 
  

   is 
  apparent 
  that 
  the 
  assiduous 
  care 
  exercised 
  by 
  the 
  Director 
  has 
  

   been 
  fruitful 
  in 
  good 
  results 
  in 
  every 
  way. 
  The 
  Garden 
  and 
  

   the 
  Arboretum 
  continue 
  in 
  his 
  charge 
  to 
  exert 
  great 
  influence, 
  

   not 
  only 
  throughout 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  our 
  West 
  which 
  has 
  the 
  good 
  

   fortune 
  to 
  possess 
  them 
  2 
  but 
  throughout 
  our 
  whole 
  country. 
  

  

  The 
  scientific 
  papers 
  are 
  : 
  1. 
  A 
  disease 
  of 
  Taxodium 
  distichum, 
  

   by 
  Hermann 
  von 
  Schrenk. 
  2. 
  Certain 
  Agaves 
  flowering 
  in 
  the 
  

   Washington 
  Garden 
  in 
  1898, 
  by 
  J. 
  N. 
  Rose. 
  3. 
  A 
  revision 
  of 
  

   certain 
  American 
  species 
  of 
  Euphorbia, 
  by 
  J. 
  B. 
  S. 
  Norton. 
  

   4. 
  A 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Lophotocarpus 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   States; 
  and 
  description 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Sagittaria, 
  by 
  Jared 
  

   G. 
  Smith. 
  All 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  valuable 
  papers. 
  The 
  first 
  one 
  men 
  

   tioned 
  was 
  Dr. 
  von 
  Schenck's 
  Thesis 
  for 
  his 
  doctorate, 
  g. 
  l. 
  g. 
  

  

  IV. 
  Miscellaneous 
  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  1. 
  Report 
  of 
  S. 
  P. 
  Langley, 
  Secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Institution, 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  ending 
  June 
  80th, 
  1899 
  • 
  pp. 
  81. 
  

   Washington, 
  1899. 
  — 
  The 
  report 
  of 
  an 
  institution 
  at 
  once 
  so 
  

   active 
  and 
  so 
  useful 
  as 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  is 
  always 
  of 
  interest. 
  

   The 
  various 
  matters 
  of 
  administration 
  are 
  here 
  discussed 
  in 
  detail 
  

   and 
  also 
  the 
  special 
  lines 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  institution 
  is 
  able 
  to 
  pro- 
  

   mote 
  scientific 
  research. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  of 
  these 
  is 
  

   the 
  work 
  made 
  possible 
  through 
  the 
  Hodgkins 
  fund, 
  under 
  the 
  

   auspices 
  of 
  which 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  different 
  investigations 
  have 
  been 
  

   carried 
  on. 
  The 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Zoological 
  Park 
  is 
  

   spoken 
  of 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Astrophysical 
  Observatory. 
  

   A 
  series 
  of 
  appendixes 
  give 
  further 
  detailed 
  statements 
  in 
  regard 
  

   to 
  the 
  various 
  subjects 
  by 
  the 
  different 
  gentlemen 
  in 
  charge. 
  

   From 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  G. 
  Abbot, 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  Astro- 
  

   phvsical 
  Observatorv, 
  we 
  quote 
  extensively 
  in 
  another 
  place 
  (p. 
  

   214). 
  

  

  •2. 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum. 
  Part 
  I, 
  pp. 
  

   xxvii, 
  1021. 
  Washington, 
  1899. 
  (Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  

   of 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  showing 
  the 
  operations 
  7 
  

   expenditures, 
  and 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  end- 
  

   ing 
  June 
  30th, 
  1897.) 
  — 
  This 
  volume 
  contains 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  

   coudition 
  and 
  progress 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum 
  to 
  

   June 
  30th, 
  1897, 
  by 
  Charles 
  D. 
  Walcott, 
  in 
  charge. 
  A 
  detailed 
  

   account 
  is 
  given 
  of 
  the 
  numerous 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  various 
  collec- 
  

   tions 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  extensive 
  work 
  of 
  exploration 
  and 
  investigation 
  

   that 
  has 
  been 
  carried 
  on 
  under 
  the 
  auspices 
  of 
  the 
  Museum. 
  

   Part 
  II 
  contains 
  papers 
  upon 
  certain 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  collections. 
  

   Of 
  these 
  may 
  be 
  mentioned, 
  one 
  on 
  Recent 
  Foraminifera, 
  by 
  

   James 
  ,W. 
  Flint, 
  pp. 
  249-349, 
  illustrated 
  by 
  eighty 
  plates 
  ; 
  also 
  

  

  