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versalis, III; Elfving, Anteckningar om Kulturvaxterna i Finland; 
Mela, Vymphea Fennica, eine neue europäische Seerose. 
The Ottawa Naturalist for December contains No. 12 of the 
“Contributions to Canadian Botany,” by James M. Macoun. 
“Camping in Florida,” a little article by Professor Hitchcock from 
The Industrialist (of the Kansas State Agricultural College) for No- 
vember, tells how he contrived a wheelbarrow with pneumatic tire 
and ball bearings, on which he trundled the necessary outfit of a 
botanist 242 miles in 24 consecutive days, his expenses averaging 
30 cents a day. 
No. 15 of Dr. Small’s “ Studies in the Botany of the Southeastern 
United States,” in the December number of the Bulletin of the Torrey 
Botanical Club, contains a rich grist of new species, especially in the 
genera Smilax, Oxalis, and Euphorbia. 
The October number of Monatsschrift fiir Kakteenkunde contains a 
short note by Purpus on his season’s botanizing in our western 
district. 
Under the title “ New Species of Plants from Mexico,” Mr. Bran- 
degee publishes several new binomials in Z7ythea for January. 
PALEONTOLOGY. 
Cretaceous Foraminifera of New Jersey.’ — American literature 
is conspicuously deficient in works relating to the fossil Foraminifera, 
although in Europe the class has received the attention of some of 
the leading paleontologists, and their monographs and special reports 
cover the investigations of many years. 
The present memoir includes the cretaceous Foraminifera from the 
marl beds of New Jersey, embracing the Monmouth, Rancocas, and 
Manasquan formations. The greatest number of species (seventy- 
nine) occurs in a limestone layer in the Rancocas formation. Four 
species are common to all four marl beds. Altogether there are one 
hundred and fifteen species now known from the New Jersey Creta- 
ceans. The plates give unusually good representations of the form 
and structure of about thirty species of special interest. CEB 
1 Bragg, R. M., Jr. The Cretaceous Foraminifera of New Jersey, Bull. U.S: 
Geol. Surv., No. 88. 8vo. 6 plates, 89 pp. Washington, 1898. 
