No. 3, April, 1921] BOTANICAL EDUCATION; CYTOLOGY 237 



BOTANICAL EDUCATION 



C. Stuart Gager, Editor 

 Alfred Gundersen, Assistant Editor 



1607. Anonymous. Toronto botanic garden. Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 9: 127. 1920. — 

 News item of plans being developed for the establishment of a botanic garden in Toronto, 

 Canada, by the University of Toronto in cooperation with the municipal authorities and the 

 Provincial Government. — C. S. Gager. 



160S. Bower, F. O. Botany of the living plant. 580 p., U7 fig. SIO.OO. Macmillan & 

 Co., Ltd.: London, 1919. — Expansion of course in elementary botany in Glascow University. 

 Elementary and fundamental held as equivalent terms. Plant presented as living, growing, 

 self-nourishing, self adapting creature. Angiosperms 300 pages, seed, cells, tissues, leaf, 

 root, water-relation, nutrition, etc., followed by gymnosperms and lower plants. General 

 conclusion: Sex and heredity, alternation of generations and the land-habit. Appendix: A. 

 Floral construction in angiosperms; B. Vegetable food-stuffs. — A. Gundersen. 



1609. Clute, Willard N. Plant names and their meanings. Amer. Bot. 26: 11&-124. 

 1920. 



1610. Gager, C. Stuart. Heredity and evolution in plants, xv + 285 p., 112 fig. 

 P. Blakiston's Son & Co.: Philadelphia, 1920. — In text-book form. Thirteen chapters: life 

 history of fern (2), fundamental principles, heredity, experimental study of heredity, evolu- 

 tion, Darwinism, experimental evolution, the evolution of plants (2), geographical distri- 

 bution, paleobotany. Bibliography. — C. S. Gager. 



CYTOLOGY 



Gilbert M. Smith, Editor 

 Geo. S. Bryan, Assistant Editor 



1611. Anonymous. Carriers of the germ plasm. Jour. Heredity 10: 422. Fig. 21. 1919. 



1612. Guilliermond, A. Sur la structure de la cellule vegetale. [On the structure of 

 the vegetable cell.] Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 170: 1515-1518. 1920.— Cytological 

 methods show that all cells contain mitochondria; while studies on living cells show they are 

 not artifacts; but these studies cannot be expected to contribute much as to their nature. 

 The author applies term chondriosome to plastid forming bodies, while Dangeard considers 

 vacuolar systems chondriosomes. — C. H. Farr. 



1613. Hartridge, H. Economical dehydrating and clearing agents. Jour. Physiol. 

 [London] 54i' ^: viii-ix. 1920. — Amyl alcohol used in place of absolute alcohol and clove oil 

 following 95 per cent alcohol and followed by Canada balsam in xylol; also for passing to 

 No. 1 petrol for embedding in paraffin. No. 1 petrol used successfully in place of xylol for 

 paraffin imbedding and dissolving paraffin from mounted sections. — Ernest Shaw Reynolds. 



1614. Li cent, E. Sur I'emploi, comme fixateur, des melanges de formol et de composes 

 chromiques. [The use of mixtures of formalin and chromic compounds as fixatives.] Compt. 

 Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 170: 1518-1521. 1920.— For the past 15 years the writer has used 

 successfully the following formulae: (1) 1 per cent chromic acid 80 cc. ; commercial formalin 

 15 cc; glacial acetic acid 5 cc. (2) the same as (1) but using 2 per cent chromic acid. (3) 

 2 per cent chromic acid 6 cc. ; commercial formalin 30 cc. ; crystallizable acetic acid 5 cc, (4) 

 2 per cent chromic acid 50 cc. ; commercial formalin 30 cc. ; crystallizable acetic acid a few 

 drops; 10 per cent potassium bichromate 10 cc. ; 10 per cent nickel acetate 10 cc. (5) Same as 

 (4) with the addition of 10 cc. of saturated aqueous solution of mercuric chloride. Formulae 



