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Theoric et la Pratique du Jardinage (1709); Fleetwood's Curiosities of Nature and Art in 

 Husbandry and Cardening (1707) with the Curiositez de la Nature et de I'Art sur la V6g6ta- 

 tion of the Abbe Vallemont (1705).— il/. /*.'. Warner. 



85. Russell, E. J. [Prof. Italo Giglioli.] Nature 106: 573. 1920.— Obituary of this 

 noted teacher and investigator in agriculture who died Oct. 1, 1920. — 0. A. Stevens. 



86. Savelli, Martino. La vendita dell' erbario di Giuseppe Raddi. (The sale of Raddi's 

 herbarium. Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1918: .VS. 1918.— Scojjc and condition of the herbarium were 

 carefully investigated by Gaetano Baroni, head gardener of the Botanical Garden at Florence, 

 and its purchase for the University of Pisa was urgently recommended by Savi. It comprised 

 rare plants from Brazil and Madeira, with others from Australia, Cape of Good Hope, and the 

 East Indies, which had been obtained by exchange from Brown, Sieber, Mayen, and other 

 correspondents. It was also rich in groups and genera on which liaddi had specialized, 

 such as grasses and cryptogams, Melastoma and Piper. It reached Pisa about March, 1830, 

 and was incorporated by Savi with the University herbarium. About the same time, also, 

 Raddi's Egyptian collections were received, the botanical portion being turned over to Savi 

 for the herbarium, while the zoological portion was divided between the museums of Pisa 

 and Florence. — M. F. Warner. 



87. Senn, Gustave. Prof. Dr. Hermann Vochting. Verhandl. Naturf. Ges. Basel 

 30: 1-9. Portrait. 1919. — Vochting was born at Bromberg, Feb. 8, 1847, and trained 

 as a gardener. Going as a young man to the botanical garden at Berlin he came under the 

 influence of Professor Alexander Braun, which led him to study botany under Braun, Prings- 

 heim, and Kny; he took his degree at Gottingen in 1873. The following year he became 

 lecturer at Bonn, where he zealously carried on his investigation of morphological problems 

 by the experimental method. As a result of the publication of his researches in Pfliiger's 

 Archiv in 1877, he was called to the chair of botany at Basel in 1878, succeeding his friend 

 Pfeffer, who had been called to Tubingen. In 1887 he was again called to succeed Pfeffer at 

 the University of Tubingen, where he remained until his death, Nov. 24, 1917. His botanical 

 work is summarized, and a list of 34 publications by him is appended. — M. F. Warner. 



88. Sprague, T. a., and James Britten. The botany of the "Herald." (Bibliographical 

 note. LXXXIII). Jour. Botany 59: 22-24. 1921.— The date of issue and limits of each of the 

 10 parts (1852-1857) has been worked out by Sprague for The Botany of the Voyage of H. M. 

 S. 'Herald,' by Berthold Seeman. Britten has appended a list of the various botanists who 

 assisted in the work, with their respective contributions. — K. M. Wiegand. 



89. Vines, S. H., and Druce, G. C. An account of the herbarium of the University of 

 Oxford, Part II. p. 21-55. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1919.— Beside the additions to the her- 

 barium, there is a list of collectors represented, often with dates of birth and death or other 

 biographical information. — Neil E. Stevens. 



90. Waters, C. E. More about early days of the American Fern Society. Amer. Fern 

 Jour. 11: 10-19. 1921. 



91. Watts, Francis. Tropical department of agriculture with special reference to the 

 West Indies. West Indian Bull. 18: 101-133. 1920. — This paper, reproduced from the Journal 

 of the Royal Societj' of Arts for Feb. 20 and 27, 1920, deals with the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture for the West Indies, and notably the evolution of the various agricultural insti- 

 tutions from the smaller botanical gardens, and the part the larger institutions have played 

 in the economic development of the colonies. Through the scientific study and development 

 of already existing industries, such as sugar, and the fostering of others, such as cotton, a 

 condition of depression has gradually given place to prosperity. Methods of study and con- 

 trol of the pests and diseases attacking staple crops and the difficulties encountered are also 

 fully dealt with. — J. S. Dash. 



