University of Vermont, is his choice of 

 a monument. 



DUDLEY, WILLIAM RUSSELL: 



The emeritus professor of systematic 

 botany at Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity, died June 4, 1911, aged 62 years. 

 He was a frequent contributor to Amer- 

 ican botany, and his services to die 

 science are commemorated in the genus 

 Dudieya, of which many species occur 

 on the Pacific coast. 



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EDITORIAL. 



With the passing- of old friends and 

 corresponuenis ambition wanes. Who is 

 left to care for what tiie editor may 

 write? Yet not a few are yet left witn 

 a iaste tor tne study of nature, and 

 perchanse there are otners unKnown who 

 may ue interested in the old themes. 



The year 1910 was spent in the south- 

 ern iviexican states, on uotany intent, by 

 the editor, and the year's Work iias fur- 

 nished material that may add many 

 pages to tne book of natuie. 



More than 3000 species of plants were 

 collected or observed, the phanerogams 

 being mostly determined by Jesse More 

 Greenman, the Euphorbiaceae by 

 Charles Frederick Milispaugii, the or- 

 cinas uy OaKes Ames, the grasses bv A. 

 S. HitcncocK, the ferns by W. M. Maxon, 

 the lichens by H. ID. Hasse, the fungi in 

 part oy W. G. Farlow, in pari, by YV. A. 

 Murrill. 



Outside of botany but little was ac- 

 complisned, a smaii collection of land 

 and other shells named by YV'. H. Ball, 

 being all worthy of note. The present 

 volume bid fair to be mainly Mexicana, 

 as a consequence of the past year's 

 rambling. 



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BOOKS. 



GILLETTE, King C: World corporation. 

 1910. 240 pp. $1. 



From the author, 6 Beacon St., Boston, 

 Mass. An ideal scheme for combining 

 ail industries under co-operative action. 

 MAXia; HUDSOIi: 



The Science of Poetry and the Phil- 

 osophy of Language. 294 pp. Illustrated. 

 «p2 h o net. 



The author, a celebrated scientist, and 

 an inventor of international renown, 

 says in his introduction, which we can- 

 not do better than to repeat, "that tne 

 main object of tins book is to provide 

 a practical method for literary criticism 

 and analysis, and a standard of uniform 

 judgment for determining the relative 

 merits of literary productions, and fur- 

 ther, to supply a more practical and effi- 

 cient means than we have had hereto- 

 fore for the standardization of poetry, 

 whereby any poem may be assayed, and 

 the amount of its poetic gold determined 

 and separated from the slag and dross." 

 The author's definition of poetry is thai 

 it is the "expression of insensuous 

 thought in sensuous terms by artistic 



trope.' The work will be welcomed by 



every true poet so tavored as to nave 

 acces to it, but is likely to receive scant 

 courtesy from the rest of a world en- 

 grossed in money-making. 



BOOKS ON CACTI. 



ENGELMANN, GEORGE: Cactaceae of 



the Mexican boundary survey, many 



fine plates, $10. 

 LABOL RET, J.: Monographic des Cac- 



tees. 1847 (fide Lemaire). 



A very rare work, $10. 

 ORCUTT, CHARLES RUSSELL: Review 



of the Cactaceae. Unbound parts, all 



published, $5. 



BOOKS OK" MEXICO. 



Codigo de Comercio, 1889. $1. 

 WILSON, Rooert A.: Mexico: its peas- 

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 MELISH, John: A geographical descrip- 

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 the West Indies. NY. 1826. 497 pp. 

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 Calendaria de Galvan. 18, 42, 1843, 1845. 

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Boletin de agricultura, mineria, e indus- 

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STEPHENS, John L. : Incidents of travel 

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Incidents of travel in Yucatan. 1843. 



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NORMAN, B. M. : Rambles in Yucatan. 

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WARD, H .G. : Mexico. London, 1829. Ed 

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BUSTO, Emiliano: Impuestos Federales 

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 MASSE Y, Gilbert company: Blue book of 

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CAN PLANTS SEE? 



"I have received from you five excel- 

 lent plants — all in first-class condition, 

 and if they do not survive it will not be 

 your fault. You scientists seem agreed 

 that plants can see. I wonder what 

 the^e new ones think as they look out 

 on the snow-covered ground and a rag- 

 ing blizzard." — Thomas J. Crowe. 

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AMERICAN PLANTS. 



This work, published, at $4 per vol- 

 ume, by Charles Russell Orcutt, San 

 P'eTO. California, contains in brief the 

 following: 



Abbreviations 372, 411. 



Algae (Californian), 392 



Alphabetical index — chiefly of Calif or- 



niian plants, 445. 



Among the wild flowers of San Diego, 

 by James S. Lippincott, 401. 



Analytical key to fimilie-. represented 



