174 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vow. XXXIII. 
Heft 5 of Hedwigia for 1898 is occupied by the conclusion of 
C. Mueller’s “ Analecta bryographica Antillarum,” and the first install- 
ment of Hennings’s “Fungi Americani-boreales.” Among the latter 
Hennings is still finding a good grist of new species. 
Bolander, well known by name at least to all students of Cali- 
fornian botany, is the subject of a biographical sketch, with portrait, 
in Erythea for October. 
In the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, October, 1898, is given 
a half-tone figure of the special gold medal presented to Sir Joseph 
Hooker by the Society on the occasion of the completion of his Mora 
of British India. The obverse bears a relief bust of Dr. Hooker, 
modeled very faithfully by Bowcher, while the reverse is margined 
by a wreath of Sikkim rhododendrons, surrounding a suitable in- 
scription. 
The American Botanist is the name under which another journal- 
istic effort is launched by Charles Russell Orcutt. While his previous 
papers have hailed from the Pacific coast, this, of which Vol. I, No. 1, 
appeared in September, seems to come from the Gray Herbarium of 
Harvard University, though a note by Dr. Robinson in the Botanical 
Gazette makes it appear that it is not to be regarded in any way as 
an official publication of the herbarium. The initial (and unique ?) 
number is devoted to “an attempt at forming a record for the botanic 
garden of Harvard University, aiming to present the history and 
individuality of each specimen plant,”—a point in which Mr. Orcutt 
is believed to consider most American gardens very defective, — and 
deals with the cacti, not even excluding the glass moal of the Ware 
Collection. 
PALEONTOLOGY. 
Habits of Thylacoleo. — In a recent number of*the Proceedings 
of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Dr. R. Broom revives 
the question of the habits of a remarkable extinct Australian form, 
which led to a famous controversy between Sir Richard Owen and 
Sir William Flower. In 1859 Owen presented Thylacoleo as “ one 
of the fellest and most destructive of predatory beasts, with affinities 
to the Dasyuride.” Later, moreover, in 1866, he adhered to this 
interpretation of the large back cutting teeth, although in the mean 
time a pair of procumbent tusks had been discovered, which appar- 
