1040 The American Naturalist. [December, 
In September the National Herbarium in Washington was trans- 
ferred from the Agricultural Building to fire-proof rooms in the eastern 
pavilion of the National Museum. It will still be under the control 
and care of Chief Botanist Coville and his corps of assistants. 
Parts I and II of the * Flora of Nebraska" by the Botanical Semi- 
nae of the University of Nebraska have been published. They aggre- 
gate seventy-eight pages of descriptive text and thirty-six plates, and 
include the Schizophyces, Chlorophyce:, Coleochætaceæ, Rhodophyceæ 
and Charophyces. 
The Proceedings of the Madison Botanieal Congress have been 
issued by the Secretary, Dr. J. C. Arthur, of Lafayette, Indiana, in a 
neatly printed pamphlet of sixty pages. 
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