208 Botanisches Centralblatt. 



best medium early sorts; Baltimore Market and Hone)'- were good 

 mid-season sorts; Dreadnaught, Columbus Market, Hickok Impro- 

 ved, Late Mammoth, Triumph and Zig-Zag Evergreen were the 

 best late varieties. The Standard canning varieties are Country 

 Gentleman, Stowell Evergreen, Truckers Favorite and Zig-Zag 

 Evergreen. — Walter T. Swingle.] 

 Priee, H. L. and W. B. Ellett. 1909. First report on the culture 

 and analyses of French Cider Apples in Virginia. fAnnual Rept. 

 Virginia agric. Expt. Stat. (Blacksburg, Va.) for 1908. 1909. p. 39—54, 

 figs. 16—32.) [Descriptions and chemical analyses of 19 varieties 

 of French cider apples grown in Virginia by top-working on old 

 trees of ordinary varieties of apples. The average total sugar 

 content of 22 French cider apples was 12.17%, of 19 Winter varie- 

 ties of common apples it was IOAG^Jq and of 7 varieties of Grab 

 apples it was ILIP/q. The tannin content is 0.39% for the cider 

 apples. The5^ are very prolific. Moulin ä vent shows much less 

 sugar than in France. Bedan des parts is the only French variet}^ 

 subject to „Baldwin spot." — Walter F. Swingle.] 



XXI. Biographie, Necrologie. 



Delpino, F. 1908. Domenico Girillo e le sue opere botaniche. 

 (Bull. Orto bot. Univ. Napoli. I. 3, p. 292.) 



Gravis, A. 1909. Notice sur Emile Laurent. (Annuaire Ac. roy. 

 Belgique. 1909. 78 pp. et portrait.) [Dans cette notice, qui est ac- 

 compagnee de la liste des ouvrages du regrette defunt, l'auteur 

 ne se borne pas ä raconter la vie de ce savant, mais il fait aussi 

 l'analyse de ses travaux. — Henri Micheels.] 



Gueguen, F. 1909. Etüde sur la vie et l'oeuvre des freres Crouan, 

 botanistes brestois. (Bull. Soc. m3^col. France. XXV. 1. p. 69 — 78, 

 2 portr.) 



Hertwig, R. 1909. Zum Gedächtnis des 100jährigen Geburtstages 

 Charles Darwin. (München, 1909. 4°. 11 pp.) 



Le 'Roy, J. J. 1909, Charles Darwin. Eene historische schets, 

 1809-1909. [slot]. (Alb. der Nat. 1909. 10. p. 285—305.) 



Lloyd, J, U. 1909. Life and medical discoveries of, Samuel 

 Thomson, and a history of the Thomsonian Materia' medica, 

 as shown in "The New Guide to Health", (1835), and the literature 

 of that day. Including portrait of Samuel Thomson; fac-simile of 

 Thomson's "Patent" to the practice of medicine; the famous letters 

 of Professor Benjamin Waterhouse, M. D.; the celebrated "Trial 

 of Dr. Frost", and other features of a remarkable epoch in American 

 medical history [with an account of the medical use of Lobelia, 

 by the editor]. (Bull. Lloyd Library of Bot., Pharm, and Materia 

 Med. 11: Reproduction Ser. 7. IV, 140 pp. 1909.) 



Maiden, J. H. 1909. Records of Australian Botanists who have 

 dealt with the fiora of Western Australia. (Journ. W. Australian 

 nat. Hist. Soc. VI. p. 28—33), 



Maiden, J. H. 1909. Records of Western Australian botanists, (Journ. 

 W, Australian nat. Hist. Soc. VI, p. 5—27.) 



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