240 Palaeontologie. — Pharmaceutische Botanik. — Personalien. 



servee, portant des mamelons loliaires plus ou moins obliteres^ 

 mais dont le rapprochement et la forme ovoYde, allongee dans 

 le sens vertical, excluent les Cordai'te'es et indiquent une Coni- 

 fere ; de plus la moelle ne presente ni les cloisonnements ni le 

 large diametre des moelles de Corda'üe'es. L'auteur conclut 

 que V Arauc. valdajolense represente le bois d'une Araucarie'e 

 ou du moins d'un type plus ou moins affine aux Araucariees^ 

 et il presume qu'il doit probablement correspondre ä Tun des 

 deux genres Walchia ou Gomphostrobus, particulierement fre- 

 quents ä ce niveau. R. Zeiller. 



Yates, LORENZO Gordin, Prehistoric California. ItsTopo- 

 graphy, Flora and Fauna. With the evidence of 

 thetimeofthe ad vent of man, and bis develop- 

 ment, from the records of his past found in the 

 soil. (Bull. So. Cal. Acad. Sei. 1. p. 81 — 137, 1902. IL 

 145- -155 and 17—22, 1903. 1 PI.) 



An attempt to present an idea of the appearance and con- 

 ditions prevalent in what is now known as California^ 

 previous to and at the time of the first appearance of its human 

 inhabitant. A brief general discussion of the occurrence of 

 fossil trees is given, with special reference to the petrified 

 forest of Napa County, of which illustrations are given, as 

 also of fossil trees in situ on the San Miquel Island. 

 A füll list of the fossil plants of California, as determined 

 by Lesquereux and Newberry is given. d. P. Penhallow. 



Tauret, C, Sur le stachyose. (Comptes rendus de l'Aca- 

 demie des Sciences de Paris. 22 juin 1903.) 



Le stachyose, retire des crosnes du Japon (Stachys tuberifera)^ 

 est un tetrose identique au manneotetrase, que Ton trouve dans la 

 manne de irene ; il a pour formule C'^'' H''- O'-'^ Bonnier. 



Personalnachricliten. 



Dr. J. M. Greenman has been appointed instructor in Botany 

 at Harvard University. 



Dr. Joseph E. Kirkwood has been appointed associate 

 Professor of Botany in Syracuse University. 



Dr. R. H. Pond has been appointed professor of botany 

 and pharmacognosy in the Northwestern University. 



Mr. H. Q. Timberlake, Assistant Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Wisconsin died July 19'^- 



Ausgegeben: 8. September 1903. 



Commissions -Verlag: E. J. Brill in Leiden (Holland). 

 Druck von Gebrüder Gottbelft, Kgl. Hoibuchdrucker in Cassel. 



