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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST [Vol. XL 



De Wildeman has begun the pubUcation, through the Government 

 of the Etat Independant du Congo, of an illustrated enumeration of 

 the plants collected by Laurent during his Congo mission of 1903-04. 



Important papers on Australasian botany are contained in current 

 issues of Proceedings of the Linnean Society of Nero South Wales and 

 the biological section of the Reports of the Australasian Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



Ridley has papers on Gesneracese of the Malay Peninsula, Aroids 

 of Borneo, and New and Little-known Malayan Plants — II, in no. 

 44 of the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 issued in July last. 



Cooke's FInm nj Ihr Pn.i^huoi nj I{nn,hn>/, in vol. 2, part 2, issued 

 in Julylast, rrachcsin(.)llH' VcrlM.na.vir. 



Schlotterhcc-k and Hl..ni. coinrilMii- a paper the <-li(MniM ry of 



forms vol.' 10, no. 2, of the Menioirsof the National Academy ofSrirnces. 



Britten publishes a note on Cliftonia in The Journal of Botany for 

 October, 1<)05. 



Interesting statistics oF t!ie coUom pHxhinion an. I valualion of the 

 world are furnished by Watkin. in liulhtm .;; <,f il,e I5i„van of Sta- 

 tistics, U. S. Departincni ol Aonciilmi-c. 



An account of "Crata-gtis in Eastern INaniM Uania/" .li^Mil)nted 

 by Sargent on September 22 from the Rrocrrdimjs nj thr Amdmiy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1905, giv*-. key. tmlie gi-oiips 

 and species represented, of which latter S2, with '4 (ii.tinei \atietics, 

 arc included,— 46 of the s{)ecies being described as new. 



A paper on Opuntia, bv Berger, is contained in Engler's Botanische 

 Jahrhucher of November 10, 1905. 



Town.^emlia wilcoxiana is figured in vol. 5, fascicle :i. of fmn^s 

 Selects Iforti Thenensis. 



descril)ed by Fernald in lie Ottawa Xaturali.^-t f..r \oNe,n!.er 



Power and BarrowcHff discuss the seed cotiMitneni-. of 1 1;, >hi..rai-piis 

 and Gynocardia in nos. 54 and 55, respectively, of the pnl)rieutions of 

 the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, of I>oiid(3n. 



