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first botanical work was in connection with an expedition to Cape Horn. Upon hie return 

 to Paris, he became associated with Van TlEGHEM in the Natural History Museum. Be 

 chiefly interested in the algae and fungi. Later he gave special attention to the rusts, and 

 became one of the founders of the Plant Pathological Society of France. At the time of his 

 death, he was curator of the Crypt ogam ic Herbarium at the Jardin des Plantes. [See also 

 next following Entry, 85.] — C. L. Shear. 



85. Mangin, L. Paul Hariot (1854-1917). Notice necrologique. [Obituary notice.) 

 Bull. Trimest. Soc. Mycol. France 35: 4-11. 1919. — See also next preceding Entry, 84. 



86. Mitra, Sarat Chandra. On the use of the swallow-worts in the ritual, sorcery, 

 and leechcraft of the Hindus and the Pre-Islamitic Arabs. Jour. Bihar and Orissa Research 

 Society [Patna] 4:191-213,351-356. 1918. — Treats of religious beliefs and ritualistic practices 

 with reference to Calolropis gigantca and C. procera. — B. Lavfer. 



87. [Nordstedt, C T. O.] [Swedish rev. of: Gertz, O. Christopher Rostii Her- 

 barium Vivum i Lund.] Bot. Notiser 1918: 214. 1918. — A notice of a Pre-Linnean herbarium 

 found in the University Library at Lund, Sweden. It has the title: "Herbarium vivum de 

 anno 1610," and contains 372 plants. It became the property of the University in 1687. — 

 P. A. Rydberg. 



88. Ostenfeld, C. H. Botanikeren Johan Lange. [John Lange, the botanist.] Bot. 

 Tidsskr. 36: 175-181. 1918.— Address on the occasion of the commemoration of the birth of 

 John Lange, author of the handbook of the Danish flora. This took place on March 20, 191S. 

 — A. L. Bakke. 



89. Pamjviel, L. H. Recent literature on fungous diseases of plants. Rept. Iowa State 

 Hortic. Soc. 53 : 185-225. 1918. — Contains abstracts of recent literature on fungous diseases 

 of plants under the following heads, diseases of apple, pear or quince; diseases of the potato; 

 tomato diseases; root crops and vegetable diseases; diseases of forest trees; miscellaneous dis- 

 eases of fruits ; miscellaneous fungicides ; diseases of cereal and forage crops ; systematic papers, 

 biographical and historical. Under the last topics are given a review of Whetzel's History of 

 Phytopathology, and notices of R. H. Pearson, H. S. Coe, Geo. F. Atkinson, V. M. 

 Spalding, Byron D. Halsted and P. H. Mell. — L. H. Pammcl. 



90. Roberts, H. F. The founders of the art of breeding. I. Jour. Heredity 10: 99-106. 

 4 fig. 1919. — An historical discussion of the investigations and writings of the founders of the 

 art of breeding. It is shown that sex was recognized in the date palm by the Babylonians 

 and Assyrians but was forgotten. The Greek writers, Aristotle, Pliny and Theophrastus, 

 commented upon the supposed nature of sex in plants, but it remained for Camerer, professor 

 of Natural Philosophy in the University of Tubingen in 1694, to discover by actual experiment 

 that pollination is indispensable to seed production. The article closes with a bibliography 

 of the early publications. [See also next following Entry, 91.] — .1/. ./. Dorse y. 



91. Roberts, H. F. The founders of the art of breeding. II. Jour. Heredity 10: 147- 

 152. 1 jig. 1919. — The second article describing the work of the early hybridists. Koelreuter 

 published a series of articles from 1761 to 1766 in which he records the results of 136 experi- 

 ments in crossing plants. To Koelreuter belongs the credit of having produced in 1760 the 

 first plant hybrid — a cross between Nicoliana paniculata and N. rustica. He also experi- 

 mented with other plants. The author points out, however, that Thomas Fairchild, an Eng- 

 lishman, crossed two kinds of pinks 41 years previous to the experiments of Koelreuter, and 

 that Richard Bradley, who wrote of the experiments of Fairchild, had, two years before 

 this (1717), removed the anthers from twelve tulips in a remote corner of the garden and found 

 that they produced no seeds, while some four hundred others in another section of the garden 

 produced seeds freely. Still others experimented with sex in plants before the work of Koel- 

 reuter. In 1739 James Logan, governor of Pennsylvania, found that when isolated corn plants 



