Prof. A de Can-dolle, of Geneva, has published some "new remarks on the Nomenclature of Botany." He was editor of the laws of Botanical Nomenclature adopted by the botanical Congress, International, of 1867, and what he says has great weight. Among other things, he points out the growing uselessness of adding the abbreviated names of authors, after the scientific names in zoology and botany. In the past, when authors might be named inside the hundred, it might be well; but now, when they may be named by the thousand, few know what the abbreviations mean; and the public are driven from the studies by the miserably long and meaningless names.