NOTES AND COMMENT 



Our attention has been called to the fact that the list of doctorates in 

 botany which was recently published in The Plant World (December, 

 1913) did not contain the seven degrees conferred at the University of 

 Chicago (which were not published in Science), and that one of the 

 degrees conferred at Harvard University was accidentally omitted. The 

 total number of doctorates that were conferred in botany in 1913 is 

 thus raised to forty-six. The omitted names and dissertations are as 

 follows, the last-named being the Harvard conferee: 



Winifred McKinzie Atavood: A Physiological Study of the Germination of 

 Avenafatua. 



George Damon Fuller: Evaporation and Soil Moisture in Relation to the 

 Succession of Plant Associations. 



John Benjamin Hill: The Anatomy of Six Epiphytic Species oi Lycopodium. 



Lee Irving Knight: A Chemical Study of Dormancy in the Buds of Lirio- 

 dendron tulipijera. 



John Nathan Martin: Comparative Morphology of some Leguminosae. 



Loren Clifford Petry: The Anatomy of Ophioglossum pendulum L. 



Norma Etta Pfeiffer: The Morphology of Thismia (Bagnisia) Atnericana 

 n. sp. 



Orland Emile White: Studies of Teratological Phenomena in their Rela- 

 tion to Evolution and the Problems of Heredity. 



In accordance with plans laid a year ago, the Botanical Society of 

 America has begun the publication of an official organ. The American 

 Journal of Botany. The Journal will be edited by a committee of the 

 Society, of which Prof. F. C. Newcombe is the chairman, and will be 

 published in cooperation with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. No one 

 can have ground to doubt the ability of American botany to support 

 and to fill such a technical journal of the highest class. The expressed 

 preference of the editors for short papers still leaves no haven of publi- 

 cation open to those who persist in writing long ones. 



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