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were in a standing posture. The largest tree was forty-six feet 
long and four feet and a half in circumference. The trees were 
generally found in a dark loamy soil composed of the disintegrated 
underlying rocks at a depth varying from low-water mar 
sixteen feet below low water. It is encouraging to notice the 
improved facilities for botanical study and teaching in our col- 
leges. At Michigan Agricultural College, a building 46 by 66 
feet, and two-stories in height was erected in 1879, for the depart- 
ment of botany. The large lecture-room, 44 by 48 feet, is provided 
with tables for laboratory uses also. A large room on the second 
floor is designed for the herbarium and cabinet. At the Iowa 
' Agricultural College new and more commodious rooms were pro- 
vided for the botanical department by the erection of North Hall, 
in 1880. A large lecture-room is supplemented by a laboratory 
adjacent to it. The latter is constructed with north and east win- 
dows for microscopic work. A third room of ample size is set 
apart for the herbarium and cabinet. Ten new species of Carices 
are described in the recently published second volume of the 
“Botany of California,’ by Wm. Boott, who contributed the 
article on Carex. . E. Jones in an article on the wild fruits. 
of Utah, in Case’s Botanical Index, mentions fourteen species; 
among these is a curious wild peach which grows in the sand and 
on lavabeds. A wild gooseberry, Rides divaricatum, var. wriguum, 
and a raspberry, Rubus leucodermis, would probably be hardy 10 
the Eastern States; their fruits are described as delicious. 
ZOOLOGY. 
DRepGINGs IN THE Bay or Brscay.—The following are some of 
the more important results to which M. A. Milne Edwards directs 
attention. The Crustacez were, he says, extremely interesting ; 
not one of the specimens dredged is also littoral in habitat, and it 
seems as though there were two faunz placed one above the 
other, and not mixing. He forms a new genus, Scyramathia to con- 
tain Amathia carpenteri and Scyra umbonata; a crab with phos- 
phorescent eyes was found at various depths between 700 m. an 
1300 m. (Geryon tridens); this has been already seen in the 
Norwegian seas. unida tenuimana, with large and phosphores- 
cent eyes was not rare. Gunathophausia sea, which has only as 
yet been collected by the Challenger (off the Azores and neaf 
Brazil) was also met with. 
Most of the Mollusca belong to the deep-sea fauna of the 
North Atlantic and of the Arctic seas, Among the Mediterranean 
forms, there were some which as yet have only been found in the 
fossil state. The similarity of the deep-sea fauna at different lat- 
tudes is very strikingly shown by this collection. Pteropoda were 
taken from all depths; indications of Heteropoda were not absent. 
A short list of the more important Mollusca obtained is given 
M. Milne Edwards in a foot note, 
