NOTES AND COMMENT 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe, of the New York Botanical Garden, has 

 published a paper on the marine algae of Peru, based chiefly on col- 

 lections made by Dr. Robert E. Coker while investigating the fisheries 

 resources of that country. The waters of the Peruvian coast are tem- 

 perate except at the extreme north, and are inhabited chiefly by tem- 

 perate and sub-tropical algae, among which gigantic members of the 

 Laminariaceae are conspicuous. Dr. Howe's report is notable in that 

 the collections of Dr. Coker, made incidentally to other work, have 

 nearly doubled the known alga flora of Peru, and in the fact that the 

 Peruvian Department of the Interior has aided in the publication of 

 the sumptuously illustrated report, which forms Volume 15 of the 

 Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



The Cambridge University Press announces the appearance of two 

 new periodical publications. The Annals of Applied Biology is a quar- 

 terly organ of the Association of Economic Biologists, devoted chiefly 

 to pathology, horticulture, forestry and tropical economic botany. The 

 Annals of the Bolus Herbarium is edited by Professor H. H. W. Pearson 

 and is devoted to taxonomic, ecological, and other botanical work 

 emanating from South Africa. 



The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University 

 announces the establishment of an Eastern Forest Products Laboratory 

 to be located in the State Forestry Building which will be ready for 

 occupancy in the summer of 1915. In the State Forestry Building, 

 for which the State appropriated a quarter of a million dollars, there 

 will be nearly 14,000 square feet given up to experimental laboratories 

 outside of laboratories especially for educational work with students. 



