Proceediyigs of Scientific Societies, — Bibliogrrphy* ij 



PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



The San Diego Society of Natural History.— March i, 

 1889. Geo. William Barnes, M. D. , on Cremation. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



I. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart. New species of Fungi — 

 Journal of Mycology. October 1888, pp. 97-107. Several west- 

 ern species are described as new, viz. — Parodiella fruticola, Sphce- 

 rella applanata, Peziza clavigera and Phoma mamillarice from 

 Montana; Sphcerella spartince from Nebraska; and Dermatea 

 pruinosa from Colorado. The precise locality of D. pruinosa is 

 not given, but the type specimen was on the bark of Populus 

 tremuloides, in Western Custer County, at about 8,400 feet. 



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James Cassidy. Report of experiments with Potatoes and 

 Tobacco. Bull 4. Colorado Experiment Station. On p. 13, 

 Solanum tuberosum var. boreale is added to the flora of Colo- 

 rado. Attempts were made to cultivate it. T. D. A. C. 



C. H. and R. S. Eigenmann. New species of Cyprinodon 

 (C. nevadensis), from Inyo Co., Cal., Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., 2d 

 Ser., Vol. I, 270. C R. O. 



The Naturalist. No. 161, Dec, 1888. The December 

 number of this admirable periodical, devoted to the Natural 

 History of the North of England, contains some articles of 

 interest to the naturalist on this side of the water. On p. 354, 

 Mr. I. Cordeaux records the occurrence of an example of the 

 American Pectoral Sandpiper (Tringa maculata) on the York- 

 shire Coast — this being the fourth example which had been taken 

 in Yorkshire. 



There is also a valuable Bibliography of Cryptogamic Botany 

 for the North of England, 1886 and 1887. It is remarkable how 

 many species we have in Western America which are common 

 also to England, and this resemblance is especially marked in 

 the m >untain regions. Going somewhat casually through this 

 bibliography, we note the following species, for instance, common 

 to the North of England and Colorado : Thudium blandovii, 

 Bryum muhlenbeckii, Grimmia trichophylla, Mnium serratum, 

 Morchella esculenta, ^Ecidium compositarum, Dicranum fus- 

 cescens, Cladophora glomerata, Draparnaldia plumosa, Solorina 

 saccata, Hedwigia ciliata, Hypnum eugyrium, Iungermannia 

 bantriensis, I. cordifolia, Funaria hygrometrica, Webera nutans, 

 Mnium punctatum, Amblystegium serpens, and A. radicale. 



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H. I. Elwes exhibited a number of butterflies, collected in 

 California and Yellowstone Park, at a meeting of the Entomol- 

 ogical Society of London, Eng. ; among them was the species 



