Forestry for Indiana. By Dr. J. A. Warder. From the Transactions of the In- 

 diana Horticultural Society for 1880. 8vo, pp. 7. From the author. 



An essay on Timber Planting in Ohio. By Dr. John A. Warder. Columbus, 



1. Remarkable change in the color of the hair from light blonde to black in a 



with unusually prelonged anuria. 2. (.'.. ,;ted successfully 



by Pilocarpin. By D. W. Prentiss, A.M.,'M.D. Philadelphia, 1881. 8vo, pp. 15. 



Address at the eighteenth session of the American Pomological Society held in 

 ciety. Published by the society, 1881. From the author. 



Entomologisk Tnlknit pa fr.ranstaltande af entomologiska fo renin gen i Stock- 

 holm atgtven af Jacob Sp anberg. and I, Haft 1 and 2. Stockholm, 1881. From 



La Phylloxera en Suisse durant l'annee. 1880. Rapport du departement federal 



Notesurl'horticulture en Algerie. Par N. V.-Ch. Joly. From Journal de la 

 Soc. d'Hortic, 3e serie, III, 1881, p.- 261-271. Paris, 1881. From the author. 



:s du Departe- 



Herault. 67"ie Sunee, Janvier. Aout, 1880. 



Synopsis of the Catocala? of Illinois. By G. H. Fi 



en, Illinois Xormal University. Carbond'ale, Illii 

 the author. 



Tenth Report of the State Entomologist on the noxious and beneficial Insects of 

 the State of Ellin . mas, Ph.D., t t 1- t m 1 



ogist. Springfield, 1881. 8vo, pp. 238. From the author. 



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Department of the Interior. United States Geological and Geographical Survey, 

 I. V. Hayden, U. S. ( Jcologist-in-charge. Hull, of the U. S. Geol. and Geog. 



202, 4 plates. From the Interior Department. 



Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1880, Parts I 



GENERAL NOTES. 



BOTANY. 1 

 GuRDONIA PUBESCENS L'HeR (FRANKLINIA ALTAMAHA MAR- 

 SHALL).— This tree, so far as I can learn from the records, has not 

 been found in the uncultivated state since 1790, when Dr. Moses 

 Marshall saw it near Fort Harrington, on the Altamaha river, in 

 Georgia.- It was first discovered by John Bartram in the course 

 of his travels (as botanist to the king) through the Carolinas, 

 Georgia and Florida in 1765. His son William, then only a lad, 



'Edited by Prof. C. E. Bessey, Ames, Iowa. 



'See his letter to Sir Joseph Banks, p. 563, in Darlington's " Memorials of Bartram 



