1883.] Botany. 655 
conditions to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, has 
finally been received by that institution. There are over six thou- 
$10,000. It includes suites of specimens from almost all parts of 
the world, and is especially rich in relics of the Swiss lake dwell- 
ers, in pottery and implements of the American mound-builders, 
and in vases and idols from Mexico and Peru. 
The sum of $11,000 is also given to be applied to the fitting up 
of cases, to the care of the collections and to the purchase of 
Specimens and books. 
BOTANY. 
New Western Grasses.—No full revision of North American 
and Arkansas, Wolf in Illinois, and Gattinger in Tennessee, have 
vi with the materia! of several collectors. We have freely 
eur purpose jointly to publish as soon as possible a catalogue as 
full and complete as our material will permit. 
-Oward the furtherance of this object we would be glad of the 
assistance of all botanists and collectors in the communication of 
Sg and notes which may render our labors as effective as 
E. 
The following list indicates some unpublished species, most of 
Which are based upon recent collections, a few, however, having 
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Edited by Pror. C. E. Bessry, Ames, Iowa. 
