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purpose asserted itself. He forsook his profession to devote his 

 life to botany ; he forgot where the raiment, the sustenance and 

 the house-protection were to come from. He faithfully believed 

 that his other self, Harford — just as devoted and needful as him- 

 self — would see to it that he was clothed for the benefit of his 

 fellow men. For the rest, his time was no longer his own ; he 

 gave it unreservedly for the benefit of his fellow-men. His pencil 

 and his pen were never afterwards out of his hands while day- 

 light lasted." It is sincerely to be hoped that the other illustra- 

 tions left by Dr. Kellogg may find their way into botanical 

 literature in the unexceptionable form in which these have been 

 given to the world. G. l. g. 



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Ascent of a Peak in the Cascade Mountains. Dr. Julius 

 Roll, of Darmstadt, in the course of a mission of botanical ex- 

 ploration in the north-west of America, made an ascent in June, 

 1888, of a summit in the Cascade Mountains, hitherto unnamed 

 on our maps. The peak in question is situated under long. 121° 

 15' W., and lat. 41° 22' N., between two small lakes, and about 

 20 miles north of Easton on the Northern Pacific Railroad. We 

 take the following from a short account of his excursion contri- 

 buted ljy Dr. Roll to the current number of Petermann's ' Mit- 

 theilungen.' On the 19th June, in company with Herr Purpus, he 

 made his way through the primeval forest, and over rising 

 ground to the foot of the mountain, pitching his tent at an alti- 

 tude of 5,500 feet. The next morning the actual summit was 

 ascended. It is composed of melaphyr, and many pieces of agate 

 and rock crystal were found. The steep slopes are overgrown 

 with ceanothus bushes, maples, and pines, between which bloom 

 yellowish- red lilies (Lilium philadelphicum), and species of dark- 

 red pentstemons. Three successive summits were climbed, the 

 highest was estimated at 7,500 feet ; unfortunately the exact 

 altitude could not be ascertained, as the traveller's barometer had 

 become useless. The rocky crest of the mountain is covered with 

 the Selaginella rufiestris, pentstemons, phlox, pedicularis, several 

 saxifrages, and some low umbelliferous plants, &c. Traces of 

 bears, moose, and mountain sheep were observed. The follow- 

 ing day another ascent was made, and a magnificent view of the 

 snow-covered Mount Tacoma obtained. Some weeks later, find- 

 ing that the peak he had ascended was unnamed, Di\ Roll desig- 

 nated it " Mount Rigi," from the resemblance to the Swiss moun- 

 tain of that name. — Proc. P. Geogr. Soc, Oct., 1889. 



A Bibliography of Geodesy by J. Howard Gore, B.S., Ph.D. pp. 315-512. 

 U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Appendix No. lfi, Report for 1887. Washing- 

 ton, 1889. A very valuable and complete work compiled as the result of a vast 

 amount of labor involving the exploration in person of thirty -four of the princi- 

 pal libraries of America and Europe and many minor libraries by proxy, besides 

 an extensive correspondence. 



