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1588. Wellington, R. The uselessness of hill selection under conditions where rapid 

 degeneration or "running out" is prevalent. Proc. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 16: 175-179 (1919) 1920. 

 — Work over a series of years on hill selection of potatoes showed conclusively that the prac- 

 tise is useless in fields where degeneracy is prevalent. Degeneracy occurred in the progeny 

 of both high and low yielding hills. Low yielding hills often produced better than high 

 yielding ones. In 1916, 17 out of 23 varieties gave an increased yield in favor of the low 

 yielding hills. Transfer of degenerating strains for a year to localities farther north seems to 

 increase the vigor of the strain. — H. A. Jones. 



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1589. Adams, Henry. The degradation of the democratic dogma. 317 p. The Macmillan 

 Co. : New York, 1919. — The introduction by Brooks Adams details some of the activities of 

 John Quincy Adams in behalf of science. Among these are some of botanical interest, not- 

 ably his project (p. 53) to preserve a forest of live-oak near Pensacola in order that the species 

 might be studied. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1590. Anonymous. Cotton growing. Nature 105:793. 1920.— A note on the "future 

 organization" of the Empire Cotton Growing Committee of the Board of Trade, which pro- 

 poses to support both research and the training of men in pure science, in which it hopes to 

 secure the co-operation of all the plant-using industries. — 0. A. Stevens. 



1591. Anonymous. International Catalog of Scientific Literature. M. Botany. Four- 

 teenth annual issue. 753 p. London, 1919. — Literature received between September, 1914, 

 and May, 1910. "The primarj^ divisions adopted correspond to the recognized branches of 

 the science of botany." "It is considered essential that all work on fossil plants should 

 appear in the botany scheme." The primary divisions in the schedule of classification for 

 Botany are: general; morphology, embryology and cytology; physiology; pathology; evolu- 

 tion; taxonomy; geographic distribution. — Author index, 259 pages; subject index, 439 pages. 

 — D. Reddick. 



1592. Anonymous. Mary Sophie Young. Bot. Soc. Amer. Misc. Publ. 76. 81-82. 1920. 

 — An appreciation of the life and work of the late Dr. Young of the University of Texas. — 

 J. R. Schramm. 



1593. Anonymous. V/illiam Gilson Farlow. Bot. Soc. Amer. Misc. Publ. 76. 79-80. 

 1920. — An appreciation of the life and work of the late Professor Farlow, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. — J. R. Schramm. 



1594. Britten, J. Some early Cape botanists and collectors. Jour. Linn. Soc. London 

 Bot. 45: 29-51. PI. 4. 1920. — A consideration of the following botanists and collectors of 

 Cape Colony whose work is represented in the Department of Botany of the British Museum: 

 Justus Heurnius; Paul Hermann; Thomas Bartholinus; Henri cus Bernardus Olden- 

 LANDius; John Starrenburgh; John Foxe; Franz Kiggelaer; Monsieur Des Marets; 

 Franz Pehr Oldenburg; Andreas Auge; Francis Masson; Carl Pehr Thunberg; James 

 Niven; William Paterson; Anton Pantaleon Hove; William Roxburgh; James Wiles; 

 James Lind; James Robertson; David Nelson; Robert Brown; Banks; and Solander. 

 A portrait of Masson is included. — A. J. Eames. 



1595. Fairchild, D. The dramatic careers of two plantsmen. Monthly Bull. Dept. 

 Agric. California 8:585-589. 1919.— Frank N. Meyer and Aaron Aaronsohn.— £J. L. 

 Overholser. 



1596. Harvey-Gibson, R. J. Outlines of the history of botany. S74 p. A. & C. Black, 

 Ltd.: London, 1919. — A course of lectures for students at the University of Liverpool.— 

 H. L. Shantz. 



