
822 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXVI. 
Life deserve the highest commendation, and every pupil in elementary 
zoology should be made familiar with them. 
A laboratory manual to accompany Animal Forms is announced as 
in preparation. This perhaps will throw some light upon the problem 
of correlation between laboratory work and the use of the text. 
Aside from the secondary schools, where undoubtedly the books 
will have the greatest sale, the combined volume, Animals, will offer 
a mine of information and inspiration to college students who use 
it for collateral reading. Moreover, it should be especially recom- 
mended to the growing body of readers who eagerly seek general 
books relating to animal life. M. A. B. 

BOTANY. 
Notes. — Late numbers of the Botanical Gazette contain a descrip- 
tive list of the plants collected by Dr. F. E. Blaisdell at Nome City, 
Alaska, prepared by Miss Eastwood. One hundred and seventy 
species are recorded, several of them considered as new to science. 
In the Bulletin of the Torrey Club for February Miss Eastwood 
describes and figures a number of new Californian anthophytes. 
Dr. Rydberg's * Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora," VII, in 
the March Bulletin of the Torrey Club, contains a number of new 
Ranunculacez, Papaveracez, and Fumariacez. 
In No. 4 of the current volume of Transactions of the Academy of 
Science of St. Louis, Professor Norton discusses the unexplored 
botanical regions of the Southwest, and describes and figures a 
number of new spermatophytes. 
Several southwestern plants are named by Cockerell in Torreya 
for March. 
Several new species of trees from the Eastern and Southern States 
are described by Ashe in the March number of the Botanical Gazette. 
Fifty additions to the “Catalogue of Ohio Plants” are made by 
Kellerman in the Ohio Naturalist for December last. 
A list of the climbing plants of Ohio is published by Miss Dufour 
in the Okio Naturalist for February. 
Dr. Harshberger gives an account of a botanical ascent of 
Mt. Katahdin, Maine, in the Plant World for February. The 
article is illustrated by half tones and zonal diagrams. 
