38 Editors’ Table. [ January, q 
preparatory work has been done, but the main labor is left to the | 4 
future. Prof. Gray published “Statistics of the Flora of the North- 4 
ern U. S.” in American Fournal of Science and Arts, 1856, which a 
will promote the cause for that part of the country. Dr. J. G. Cooper 4 
published a‘ good article on the distribution of the forests and trees a 
of North America, in Smithsonian Report for 1858. As only the ~ 
woody plants are here accounted for, the limits drawn cannot be q 
intended as to separate botanical districts in general. Even for ~ 
the forest plants the limitations admit of some corrections, but q 
as a preliminary essay it is valuable. 4 
Here this sketch must be concluded, for two reasons—tI, the ~ 
newest botanical literature is so extensive, and partly published i 
in so many different periodicals, that a private library is not su 
cient for a survey of the whole; 2, the number of botanists has 
‘increased so much throughout the country, as is shown by 
Cassino’s Naturalist’s Directory, that it is rather difficult to win- 
-now the chaff from the wheat, and to avoid offence by neglect- a 
ing a man whose merits are worthy of mention. 
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EDITORS” FABLE. 
EDITORS: A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE. 
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, nearly 
four years since, made a number of changes in its 6rganization aS _ 
expressed in its by-laws. With but two dissenting voices, the ~ 
investigators or active scientists of the academy. It was thought 
1 Although published in 1860, yet, as the author has mentioned several works pub- 
lished later than 1850, we may here draw attention to the Flora of the Southem 
United States, containing abridged descriptions of the Flowering Plants and Ferns 
of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Flo- 
rida, by A. W. aes, ee D. Sou Ferns, by Daniel C. Eaton, New York, 1860; 
pp- 621.—EDITORS 
