BOOKS AND WRITERS. 



Goings "With the Trees" a book of popular information, 

 has recently gone out of print. 



A new magazine devoted to the natural history of the 

 middle west has appeared under the title of The Midland 

 Nahiralist. It is to be published bi-monthly at Notre Dame, 

 Ind., under the editorial management of J. A. Nieuwland. The 

 first number was issued iin April and contains a variety of 

 articles on plants and animals. 



The Amateur Naturalist, after weathering the vicissitudes 

 of this life for several years has been merged with the Guide 

 to Nature- The Naturalist filled a niche all its own and we 

 are sorry to see it cease publication. Like most of the maga- 

 zines devoted to natural history, however, it was run largely 

 for the editor's pleasure, long experience having shown that 

 there is no money in such ventures. Thus it happens that 

 when the editor gets overloaded with other work connected 

 with breadwinning or finds automobiling more enticing than 

 type-setting the magazine has to stop. 



Still another botanical publication has issued from the New 

 York Botanical Garden in the shape of a fungus journal to be 

 known as Mycologia. This makes the ninth serial publication 

 for which New York is responsible, but while pleased at the 

 unusual activity which so many publications denote we can- 

 not help feeling that instead of so many thin little publications 

 at exorbitant prices it would be far better to combine them 

 into one or two dignified serials like those of Missouri Botani- 

 cal Garden. It is certainly exasperating to be obliged to sub- 

 scribe to so many publications in order to keep up with things 

 botanical. Mycologia is a continuation of the Journal of My- 

 cology edited by the late Dr. W. A. Kellerman. It is a bi- 

 monthly of about 36 pages and costs $3.00 a year. The num- 

 bers are not sold separately, Imt would cost at the rate of 50 



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