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logue and check list of the trees and woody shrubs of America, 
north of Mexico, by John W. Byrkit. It occupies fifteen pages 
of the report. Mrs. Haines also contributes a list of the ferns, 
mosses, hepaticze and lichens o ayne county, Indiana. 
Grevillea for March and June contains an article by Dr. M. C. 
Cooke, strongly opposing the “ dual lichen hypothesis,” proposed 
by Schwendener. The death of the following botanists has 
recently been announced: Elisabetha, Contessa Fiorini-Mazzanti, 
author of many papers on Algæ, etc.; of Thilo Irmisch, well 
known for his memoirs on the morphology of Phanerogams; of 
E. Spach, a voluminous author of systematic works and papers; 
of Prof. Karl Koch, of Berlin, best known as a horticultural bot- 
anist, as was David Moore, the well-known director of the Glas- 
nevin Botanic Gardens, Dublin, who died June goth at the age of 
seventy-two years; Tilbury Fox, M.D., who had given attention 
to the part played by minute fungi in producing skin and hair 
diseases, died at Paris, June 7th. We may add to the list Wm. 
Schimper, who, according to Gray, was the schoolmate of Agassiz, 
and one of the first investigators of phyllotaxy; he spent most of 
his life in Abyssinia. 
ZOOLOGY. ! 
Tue SpapeE-Foot Toan 1x New Haven, Conn.—For more than 
two years I have been looking for the “ spade-foot”’ (Scaphiopus 
holbrookit) in and about New Haven, confident that it occurred 
here and that careful search would reveal it; but my efforts have 
been vain until very lately. Thursday, April 24th, I saw some 
_ children gathered around an object on the pavement of Prospect 
Street, and I asked them what they had. They replied that they 
had dug up a toad in the next yard. You can imagine my sur- 
prise and delight to behold a real live “spade-foot,” the first I 
ad ever seen alive. They willingly gave it to me, and I carefully 
took it home with me and kept it alive in a large box with plenty 
of earth and a tub of water. 
Tuesday morning (the 29th) I was shooting small birds near 
Fair Haven, when I heard a most peculiar bellowing from a pond 
near by. I am more or less familiar with all the ordinary sounds 
that come from a pond, and I jumped at the conclusion that I 
heard the “ spade-foot.” On reaching the pond I saw a sight I 
ceding days, and swimming all over the surface, and at times 
uttering their peculiar bellow, were forty or fifty of my long- 
Sought friends. They would float or swim awkwardly along 
until they wished to favor me with a song, and then the accommo- 
dating soloist would suddenly assume a perpendicular position as 
if a plummet had been attached to his tail, his head alone show- 
_ ‘The departments of Ornithology and Mammalogy are conducted by Dr. ELLIOTT 
Cours, U. S: A ' 
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