438 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
w PLANTS.— In my botanical rambles this last May two new plants 
came sinon my own observation. One of them which we have made 
kn nown as Viola erecta, was found near Williamstown, Mass., and is a va- 
us 
um album, has a white flower with yellow anthers and leaves, but 
ede. dons ge aetati which mark it as a distinct variety of G. 
maculatum.— H. M. Myers, Williamstown, Mass. 
ALMS OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. — In the capti Popular ac Miro nt 
f palms, contributed by Dr. Seemann to the * Gardener's Chronicle," it 
tivation. There is, m howews Y, nng evidence to show that the palm noticed 
both in this country and at Kew. Of these the best developed specimen 
known belongs to the collection of H. H. Hunnewell, of Wellesley, Mass. 
THE IRRITABILITY THE STAMENS IN THE BARBERRY, according to 
i dain (Comp s Rendus " April 25th), is b Meg y chloroform. 
or twelve minutes, in which case sisi vitality of the flowers was Ead 
impaired or destroyed. — Acade 
dnd mel 
THE FUTURE OF NATURAL SCIENCE. — We had heard it stated that 
cepi Maid discovery would be made solely by the aid of mathe- 
; th d our data, and need only to work deductively. State- 
rues of a similar character crop out from time to time in our day. They 
arise from an imperfect acquaintance with the nature, present condition, 
and prospective vastness of the fleld of physical inquiry. The upshot of 
natural science will doubtless be to bring all physical phenomena under 
for ages to come — possibly for all the ages of the human race — nature 
will find room for both the philosophical experimenter and the mathe- 
matician. — Tyndall's notice of the ** Life and Letters of Faraday" in the 
Academy. 
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