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title being given as a rule under all the subjects covered by it. Most of those relating to 

 bibliography of Pathology are listed under Botany, but others of interest are given only 

 under Bacteriology. The topics Agriculture and Forestry and Medical Sciences also include 

 matter of interest to the botanist, but no place is provided for general biology or genetics. — 

 M, F. Warner. 



845. Delaunay, Paul. Un botanists manceau, Hector Leveille (1863-1918). Bull. 

 G6og. Bot. 27: 57-96. 1919. — An enthusiastic account, with bibliography, of the varied 

 activities of I'abbe Leveille not only in the field of botany, but in the organization of learned 

 societies, and the study of anthropology, geography, history, biography, and archeology. 

 As a botanist he was best known for his studies of regional floras. — Neil E. Stevens. 



846. [Dudgeon, Winfield.] The Indian Botanical Society. 12 p. Allahabad, 1920. — 

 This society "for uniting the botanists and promoting the botanical interests of India" was 

 organized in 1920. The history of its organization together with the provisional constitution 

 and list of charter members is here printed. — Neil E. Stevens. 



847. Durham, H. E. Philological notes. Gard. Chron. Ill, 64: 146-147. 1918.— Origin 

 and associations of the following: "Bloom," corresponding to the French "fleur," whence 

 possibly some of the apples known as Belle Fleur; "pruine" from prune; the Pearmains or 

 Parmayns, for which numerous derivations have been suggested, to which the author adds 

 the possibility that the name may have come from the French "permaindre" or "parmaindre" 

 (Latin "permanere"), because of the lasting quality of the fruits originally so called. — M. F. 

 Warner. 



848. Dykes, W. B. Did the tulip mania ever reach Italy? Garden 83: 528. 1919.— In 

 response to an inquiry author says that Mattel in his article "I tulipani di Bologna," Mal- 

 pighia, 1893, p. 15, states as a matter of course that when the mania was at its height in Hol- 

 land in 1634 there were "maniacs" also in Florence, Bologna, and elsewhere. — M. F. Warner. 



849. Fairbridge, Dorothea. Vergelegen. South African Gard. 9: 408-409. Illus. 

 1919. — An estate at Cape of Good Hope granted in 1700 to Governor Willem Adriaan van 

 DER Stel, who cultivated here at the beginning of the 18th century a great variety of European 

 vegetables, also interesting himself in food possibilities of the native plants. He grew tulips 

 and Ceylon bulbs, and both he and his father, Simon van der Stel, sent quantities of Cape 

 bulbs to Holland. He introduced the white mulberry into cultivation at the Cape. His 

 manuscript on gardening, now in the South African Public Library, which was published in 

 1825 in the African Court calendar as an issue of the "African gardeners' and agriculturists' 

 calendar," contains mention of diseases of fruit trees. — M. F. Warner. 



850. Fairchild, David. Byron David Halsted, botanist (1852-1918). Phytopath. 9: 

 1-6. Portrait. 1919. — An intimate and interesting personal sketch of Dr. Halsted and his 

 methods of work, by his nephew. — Neil E. Stevens. 



851. Farquharson, C. O. Charles Ogilvie Farquharson and his work in West Africa 

 Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1918: 353-361. 1918.— Letter to the Assistant Director at Kew, 

 with prefatory note stating that Farquharson died Oct. 3, 1918. "A remarkably graphic 

 epitome of his life work in Nigeria. The nature of the work, the methods by which he sought 

 to solve the many difficult problems, and the kind of education that his experience had led 

 him to believe best for such work are all fully discussed." — M. F. Warner. 



852. Fletcher, S. W. One hundred years of strawberry growing in North Amerxa. 

 Proc. Amer. Pomol. Soc. 35: 125-132. 1918. — Commercial history. Although native berries 

 abounded, and plants were brought from the fields and cultivated by the colonists ns early 

 as 1700, there was no attempt to grow for the market until after 1800. — M. F. Warner. 



