The genera of the Cryptogams (Ferns down to Hepaticae) are illustrated in fourteen crowded plates.

So that the volume has become rather formidable as a class-book, which it is intended for.
I have revised the last proofs to-day.

The publishers will bring it out some time in August.

Meanwhile, I am going to have a little holiday, which I have earned, little as I can spare the time for it.

And my wife and I start on Friday to visit my mother and friends in West New York, and on our way back I will look in upon the scientific meeting at Albany on the 20th inst., or later, just to meet some old friends there.
Why could not you come over, on the urgent invitation given to European savans--and free passage provided back and forth in the steamers?
Yet I believe nobody is coming.