NOTES AND COMMENT 



Thirty-four dot'torates are credited to botany duriiiji,- 1914 by the 

 Editor of Science (40: 256-264. 1914) as against 28 for 1913. Seven 

 of the 34 properly l)elons in 1913, however, (see Plant World 17:56. 

 1914) so that the doctorates on the basis of the discussion in science 

 would number 35 in 1913 and 27 in 1914. Accepting the current fig- 

 ures in Science, however, the total number of interest to botanists in 

 1914, which would receive notice in the botanical reviewing periodicals, 

 is 45 as against 39 in 1913, as given in the following list: 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



Paul Johnson Anderson: The Morphology and Life History of the 



Chestnut Blight Fungus. 

 Harris Miller Benedict: Senile (J^hanges in Leaves of Vitis Vulpina L. 



and certain other Plants. 

 Forest Milo Blodgett : Perithecial Development of l^phaerotheca hwmuli. 

 Jean Broadhurst: A Study of the Habitats and the Morphological 



and Physiological Characters of Streptococci. 

 Jehiel Davidson: A Comparative Study of the Effect of Cumarin and 



Vanilin on Wheat Grown in Soil, Sand, and Water Cultures. 

 Howard Brett Frost: The Relation of Temperature to Variation in 



Matthiola. 

 Charles Truman Gregory: The Downy Mildew Disease of Grapes. 

 Lexemuel Ray Hesler: Black-rot, Leaf -spot and Canker of Pomaceous 



Fruits. 

 Robert Andrew Jehle: Brown Rot of Orchard Fruits. 

 Emmeline Moore: Potamogetons in relation to Pond Culture. 

 William Howard Rankin: Field Studies on the Endothia Canker of 



Chestnut in New York State. 



UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 



Winf red McKenzie Atwood : A Physiological Study of the Germination 



of Avena fatua. 

 George vSmith Bryan: The Archegonium of Sphagnum subsecundum. 

 George Damon Fuller: Evaporation and Soil Moisture in Relation 



to the Succession of Plant Associations. 

 Edward Maris Harvey: Some Effects of Ethylene on the Metabolism 



of Plants. 



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