276 The American Naturalist. [March, 
BOTANY. 
Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club.—Nearly a year ago 
the first number of the Memoirs appeared containing Professor Bailey’s 
Studies of Carex. In August following, the second number was 
issued, containing the Marine Algæ of the New Jersey Coast and 
adjacent waters of Staten Island, by Isaac C. Martindale. The list is 
an annotated one, and is based on notes and collections made by the 
author during a period of twenty years. It embraces 91 genera, 183 
species, and 41 varieties, 
The third number of the Memoirs reached subscribers late in Jan- 
uary. It is devoted to an account, by Richard Spruce, of a collection 
of the Hepatic, collected by Dr. H. H. Rusby on the Eastern slope 
of the Bolivian Andes in 1885~6. The paper bears the title ‘‘ Hepa- 
tice Bolivian, in Andibus Bolivie orientalis, Annis 1885-6, a cl. 
H. H. Rusby, lectz.’’ Twenty-two genera, and 97 species are noted ; 
of the latter no less than twenty-five are here described for the first 
time. 
The Missouri Botanical Garden.—The first annual report of 
the director, Dr. William Trelease, sets forth the objects contemplated 
and provided for in the will of Mr, Shaw, the founder of the garden. 
They are briefly as follows: 
1, To continue the ornamental features of the garden 
2. To-add to its botanical usefulness by additions ie the growing 
plants. 
3. To provide for a system of correct labeling. 
4. To provide fire-proof quarters for the Engelmann benat 
and also for additions to the general herbarium. 
5. To improve and enlarge the botanical library. 
6. To secure a botanical museum. 
7. To assist in the pi alga of the flora of North America, by 
the publication of monograp 
8. To ultimately provide Pas research in vegetable histology, physi- 
ology and pathology. 
g. To make the garden useful for horticultural instruction. 
to, To take steps looking to the early appointment of six ‘‘ garden 
pupils.” 


