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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXXVII. 



A subject list of works on the textile industries and wearing apparel 

 in the library of the British patent office, has recently been issued 

 from that office. 



No. 5 of the current volume of Anales del Institute Mtdico National, 

 of the City of Mexico, contains the following articles of botanical 

 interest ; Villasenor, Preliminares al estudio de las resinas ; Armen- 

 daris, Algunas consideraciones sobre las propiedades fisilogicas de 

 algunas plantas que contienen saponina ; Noriega, Curso de histo- 

 ria de drogas, i. 



The Botanical Gazette for October contains the following papers : — 

 Land, A morphological study of Thuja ; Copeland, The rise of the 

 transpiration stream ; Snow, Some notes on the ecology of the Dela- 

 ware coast ; Greenman, A new western Camassia. 



The November number of the Bulletin of the Southern California 

 Academy of Sciences contains the following botanical articles : — David- 

 son, Sphcerostigma erythra ; Parish, The southern California species of 

 Calochortus, II ; Greata, Tribal character in the separation of the 

 style-branches in the Composite. The portion of Dr. Yates' Prehis- 

 toric California contained in this number is also largely devoted to 

 fossil plants of that state. 



The Fern Bulletin for ( )ctober contains the following articles : - 

 Davenport, Early fern study in America; Clute, A ten years' retro- 

 spect; Underwood, Some features of fern study; Druery, British 

 fern culture; Smith. New Zealand ferns and fern study; Miyake, 

 Notes on Japanese ferns : Gilbert, Historic al sketch of the Linnean 

 Fern Chapter; Eaton, A new Equisetum (E. hiemale intermedium). 

 and a biographical sketch of Mr. Clute. with portrait. 



Part I of Vol. XXVII of the Journal of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, dated September, 1902, contains a number of illustrated 

 articles of more than nassinir botanical interest: anions them, one bv 



