142 BIBLIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY [BoT. Absts., Vol. X, 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY 



Neil E, Stevens, Editor 



(See also in this issue Entries 873, 943, 988, 1014, 1025, 1142, 1145, 1219, 1220, 1221, 1222, 



1255, 1390) 



920. Anonymous. E.H.Wilson. Florists' Exchange 50: 233. Fig. 1. 1920.— Mention 

 is made of the departure of E. H. Wilson, assistant director of the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica 

 Plain, Massachusetts, for a 2-years' trip around the world to establish closer connections 

 with the leading horticultural and botanical institutions. — Lua A. Minns. 



921. Anonymous. John Macoun memorial. Canadian Field Nat. 34: 178. 1920 — 

 A memorial in the form of a painted portrait costing about $700 is to be hung in the Victoria 

 Memorial Museum. — W. H. Emig. 



922. Anonymous. Summer field meeting of cereal pathologists. Phytopathology 11: 

 177. 1921. — The plans and itinerary are announced for the summer meeting of cereal patholo- 

 gists at University Farm, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 19-22, 1921. — B. B. Higgins. 



923. Babcock,E.B. Gregor Mendel and the support of scientific work at Briinn, Science 

 54: 275-276. 1921. — This note includes a portion of a letter from Dr. Hugo Iltis at Briinn in 

 which he announces the decision to sell the original manuscript of Mendel's Versuche iiber 

 Pflanzenhybriden. — C. J. Lyon. 



924. Campbell, D.H. Professor H. Bruchmann. Science 54: 67-68. 1921. — Bruchmann 

 made remarkable studies on the life history of Lycopodium. He was born Nov. 13, 1847, 

 and died Christmas day, 1920. — C.J. Lyon. 



925. FoRTUN, G. M. Notas sobre una excursi6n a "El Retire." [Notes on an excursion 

 to "El Re tiro."] Rev. Agric. Com. y Trab. [Cuba] 3: 410-413. 2 fig. 1920.— A description is 

 given of the ruins of the botanical garden of the late Cuban botanist Jose Blain, with mention 

 of some trees growing there. — F. M. Blodgett. 



926. GoTHAN, W. J. T, Sterzel. Zeitschr. Deutsch. Geol. Ges. 72: 138-140. 1920.— 

 A brief account is given of this paleobotanist who died in 1914. — E. W. Berry. 



927. Gupta, S. N. The medicine and pharmacy of ancient India. Pacific Pharm. 13: 

 64-70, 92-97. 1919. — The early history of India shows that the history of medicine is closely 

 bound up with the social and religious customs of the people. Indian medical history is 

 divided into 3 periods: Vedic, Brahmanic, and Arabian. Vedic, the earliest, is reflected in 

 the 4 Vedas, and from the Rig- Veda and Atharva-Veda our knowledge of the theory and 

 practice of Hindu medicine is derived. There was a materia medica limited to vegetable 

 substances. In the later Vedic age there was separated from the priests a body of physicians 

 who were at the same time apothecaries. In the Brahmanic period the Hindu system of medi- 

 cine had become methodized, and arranged on a rational basis, with a scientific terminology. 

 At least 6 standard works existed, and probably 2000 years later 2 names are pre-eminent, 

 Charaka and Susruta, the former dealing with physiology and pathology, Susruta mostly with 

 surgery. For 2000 years these books have been paid all the honors of a state recognized 

 pharmacopoea. About 500 plants were named in Charaka, and 760 in Susruta. Physicians 

 were required to study plants, and know where, when, and under what conditions to collect, 

 dry, and preserve them. Toxicology was well developed, and the rajahs, as a means of self- 

 protection, passed laws requiring that a newly discovered poison should not be made known 

 until an antidote had been found. — C. M. Sterling. 



928. Harshberger, J. W. The old gardens of Pennsylvania. III-X. Garden Mag. 32: 

 257-258, 326-328; 33: 44-48, 120-123, 195-196, 255-256, 326-329, 374-377. Illus. 1921.— The 

 following places which are specially interesting for their old or rare trees are described, with 



