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1785. Thaxter, Roland. William Gilson Farlow. Bot. Gaz. 69: 83-87. Portrait. 

 1920. — A biographic sketch. [See also preceding Entry.] — //. C. Cowles. 



1786. Thompson, H. S. Curtis's Botanical magazine. Garden 83: 576. 1919. — The 

 author concerns himself with discrepancies in dates of early volumes. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1787. Thorpe, T. E. Armand Gautier. Nature 106:85-86. 1920.— Emile Justin Armand 

 Gautier, distinguished for his investigations in many branches of chemistry, was known to 

 botanists for his work in plant biochemistry, especially concerning the "chemical trans- 

 formations of various products in the life-history of vegetable organisms." — Neil E. Stevens. 



1788. TiMM, R. Zum achtzigsten Geburtstage Warnstorfs. [Warnstorf s eightieth 

 birthday.] Hedwigia 60: 50-53. 1918.— An appreciation of the botanical work of Carl 

 Warnstorf (born December 2, 1837) especially in the field of bryology. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1789. ToNi, G. B. DE. Commemorazione dei soci defunti G. Briosi e P. Baccarini. Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. Ital. 1919: 59-62. 1919. — In memory of the deceased members Giovanni Briosi 

 (1846-1919), and Pasquale Baccarini (1858-1919.)— A' et7 E. Stevens. 



1790. ToNi, G. B. DE. [Lucio Gabelli.] Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1918: 54-55. 1918.— Gabelli 

 died Sept. 7, 1918. A brief note on his botanical work, most important being his study of 

 the Gnetaceae. — M. F. Warner. 



1791. Traverso, G. B. Pier Andrea Saccardo, Riv. Biol. 2: 145-148. Portrait. 1920. 

 — Saccardo was born April 23, 1845, died February 11, 1920. His work as a mycologist is 

 outlined, and there is brief mention of his interest in botanical history, which resulted in 

 such books as his La Botanica in Italia (2 Vol., 1895, 1902) and La Cronologia della flora 

 Italiana (1909).— M. F. Warner. 



1792. True, R. H. Beginnings of agricultural literature in America. Bull. Amer. Library 

 Assoc. 14^: 186-194. 1920.— Some data are to be found in narratives of early European explor- 

 ers, the voyage of Captains Amadas and Barlowe, and Peter Martyr's Decades of the Newe 

 World; those of the first colonists, John Smith in Virginia, Bradford and Winthrop in Massa- 

 chusetts, and for the French provinces the Jesuit Relations. To the succeeding period of 

 colonial expansion and freer communication with Europe belong John Clayton's Letter on 

 Virginia (1688), Josselyn's Voyages, Francis Moore's Voyage to Georgia (1744), and Kalm's 

 Travels into North America. About this time began the first definitely agricultural publi- 

 cations, of which Jared Eliot's Essay upon Field-Husbandry in New England (1748), with 

 its continuations, may be considered the most important American agricultural writing 

 of the colonial period. Following the Revolution, a number of works of the most practical 

 and experimental character were published by John Beale Bordley, and during this time also 

 appeared Deane's New England Farmer, a typical agricultural dictionary. This was also 

 the time of the rise of agricultural societies in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts 

 and New York; their papers were at first usually printed in the newspapers, and the first 

 volume from such a source was published by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agri- 

 culture in 1799. The first distinctly agricultural periodical in the country was the Agri- 

 cultural Museum (Georgetown, D. C, 1810), while the American Farmer was founded by 

 Skinner in 1819.— M. F. Warner. 



1793. TuRRiLL, W. B. The Rev. H. F. Tozer and plants collected by him in the nearer 

 East. Roy. Bot. Card. Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1920: 29-31. 1920.— The Rev. H. F. Tozer 

 was born in 1829 and died June 2, 1916. He travelled extensively, especially in Greece and 

 the old Turkish Empire, and wrote many books and articles on these regions. Some of his 

 plants, which have recently been presented to Kew, are from localities little known to botan- 

 ists. — M. F. Warner. 



