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704. Maxwell, Herbert. Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bart. Nature 105: 301-302. 

 1920. — Brief account of his life and work. In botany he was especially interested in hybrid- 

 izing rhododendrons, producing R. Loderi, a hybrid of R. Griffthianum and R. Fortunei, 

 generally admitted to be the best hardy hybrid yet produced in the genus. — 0. A. Stevens. 



705. Merrill, Elmer D. Dates of publication. Jour. Botany 58: 200. 1920. — This is 

 a criticism of the practice among certain publishers of omitting the date of publication from 

 the title pages. The specific case in question is F. Maxson Bailey's Comprehension Cata- 

 logue of Queensland Plants, the date of which the author believes was March, 1913. — K. M. 

 Wiegand. 



706. Montemartini, Luigi. Pier Andrea Saccardo. Patol. Veg. 10:49-50. 1920.— On 

 February 11, 1920, P. A. Saccardo died at Padova, at the age of 74 years, after having been 

 professor of botany ther e for 41 years. — F. M. Blodgett. 



707. Montemartini, Ltjigi. Giovanni Briosi. Ilev. Patol. Veg. 10:33-35. 1920.— 

 Professor Giovanni Briosi was born in Ferrara, April 9, 1846, and died July 20, 1919. 

 He was first director of the experiment station of agricultural chemistry at Palermo and 

 Rome; in 1883 he became professor of botany in the Royal University of Pavia and also 

 directed the Italian cryptogamic laboratory. — A list of his publications is given. — F. M. 

 Blodgett. 



708. Sinttjrel, E. La foret de Fontainebleau de 1789 a 1794. [The forest of Fontaine- 

 bleau from 1789 to 1794.] Rev. Eaux et Forets 58: 218-226, 255-263, 281-288. 1920.— During 

 the first years of the French Revolution the forest of Fontainebleau, like other forests through- 

 out France, suflfered severely from depredations by the neighboring inhabitants. Attempts 

 by both local and national authorities, including the king, to check these availed little 

 except for a short period of comparative calm during the first half of 1790. Non-payment of 

 salaries of forest oflBcers resulted in a slackening of their efforts to protect the forests; and 

 on August 15, 1792, the Legislative Assembly, in an attempt to revive their interest, passed 

 an act providing for the payment of back salaries. It was not, however, until the estab- 

 lishment of the first republic that really effective steps to protect the forest were taken. 

 In the fall of 1793 the National Convention, recognizing the forest as a public asset of great 

 value, energetically set about its preservation. Armed forces were introduced to supple- 

 ment the efforts of the regular forest officers; a proposal to increase the food supply by 

 allowing goat grazing was rejected; trespassers were apprehended and punished; and all but 

 comparatively minor depredations were successfully prevented. — S. T. Dana. 



709. Smith, Annie Morrill. Mary Farnham Miller. Bryologist 23 : 80. 1920.— An 

 appreciation of Miss Miller's work on behalf of the Sullivant Moss Society. — E. B. 

 Chamberlain. 



710. S[mith], E. F. [Emile Duclaux, 1840-1904.] In Duclaux, Emil£. Pasteur: the 

 history of a mind. English translation by Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges. W. B. 

 Saunders Co. : Philadelphia, 1920. Most of the 30 pages of introduction to the book is de- 

 voted to a biographical sketch of Duclaux with a translation of a part of the eulogy on 

 Duclaux said to have been written by Koux and published in Annales de I'lnstitute Pas- 

 teur, May, 1904.— 1>. Reddick. 



