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the city. Most of the books and specimens left with LoEBNTB by Dufour were finally for- 

 warded to Lagasca at Madrid. — O. E. Jennings. 



913. Arnaud, G. Rapport sur le fonctionnement de la societe depuis sa fondation jusqu'a 

 la fin de 1919. [Review of the acts of the society from its foundation to the close of 1919.] Bull. 

 Soc. Pathol. Veg. France [Paris] 6: 154-158. Nov.-Dec, 1919.— A brief summary of the history 

 of the French Plant Pathological Society, which was established February 11, 1914, through 

 the efforts of Professor Mangin. The work of the society was greatly interrupted by the 

 war. It is now renewing its activity and increasing its membership, which is 104. It is noted 

 that two members have been elected to the National Academy of Science and two others 

 elected deputies. — C. L. Shear. 



914. Bardie, A. Quelques notes sur la Physalis Alkekengi dans la Gironde. | Notes 

 concerning Physalis Alkekengi L.] Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux (Proces-verbaux) 69: 39-47. 

 1915-16. [Received May, 1920.]— After a brief description of the habitat of this species of 

 Physalis, the author gives detailed information regarding the reputed pharmaceutical prop- 

 erties of the plant since the time of the ancient Greeks. — W. H. Emig. 



915. Beringer, G. M. Frank G. Ryan, memoir with portrait. Amer. Jour. Pharm. 92: 

 371-376. 1920. 



916. Blakeslee, A. F., Roland Thaxter, and William Trelease. William Gilson 

 Farlow, December 17, 1844- June 3, 1919. Amer. Jour. Bot. 7: 173-181. 1 pi. 1920.— The 

 authors present a brief biographical sketch of Professor Farlow, which is followed by a 

 list of his publications. [See also Bot. Absts. 6, Entries 947, 956, 963, 1463, and 1470.— 

 E. W. Sinnott. 



917. Bouchard, Georges. Le grand naturaliste Canadien. [The great Canadian natur- 

 alist.] Naturaliste Canadien 45: 114-115. Feb., 1919. — An appreciation of the late L'Abbe 

 L. Provancher, naturalist and founder of Le Naturaliste Canadien. — A. H. MacKay. 



918. Briquet, J. Les collections botaniques du botaniste espagnol Jose Quer. [The col- 

 lections of the Spanish botanist Jose Quer.] Annuaire Conservatoire et Jard. Bot. Geneve 20: 

 465-478. 4 fig. 1919. — Quer was born at Perpignan, Jan. 26, 1695, and died at Madrid, Mar. 

 19, 1764. He collected in southern Europe and northern Africa and projected a flora of Spain. 

 The first four volumes appeared from 1762 to 1764, but the fifth and sixth, in collaboration with 

 Gomez de Ortega, not until 1784. Figure 1 is a portrait of Quer. There is a description of 

 his^herbarium now at the Delessert Herbarium. — A. S. Hitchcock. 



919. Britten, James. In memory of Edward Shearburn Marshall, 1859-1919. Jour. Bot- 

 any 58: 1-11. 1920.— Marshall was born March 7, 1858, and died Nov. 25, 1919. He received 

 his university education at Oxford, and became a clergyman by profession. — It was probably 

 while at Oxford that he became interested in plants. His first contribution to the Jour. Bot- 

 any, of which he was later a leading supporter, was in 1885. Subsequently he became a prom- 

 inent British botanist of keen critical judgment, more inclined perhaps to see differences than 

 relationship and somewhat prone to over-confidence, but sound in the end. Though having 

 a wide interest in flowering plants, he studied more especially Saxifraga, Hieracium, Rub us, 

 Euphrasia, Eriophila, Viola, Epilobium, Salicornia, and Carex. Marshall was strongly 

 opposed to the "lumping school" of taxonomists and resented the tossing aside by Bentham, 

 Hooker and others as worthless critical field observation made by careful workers. His 

 own work was usually based on abundant material. His name is associated with two plants, 

 Hieracium Marshallii Linton and Rubus Marshallii Focke & Rogers. He published a Flora 

 of Kent in 1889 and contributed the article on Betula to the Cambridge British Flora in 1914. 

 He also published a supplement to the Flora of Somerset. Marshall had a wide acquaintance- 

 among British botanists and was a delightful companion. In 1911 he was elected an Honorary 

 Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. He was a vigorous collector, satisfied only with 



