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Park, June 26, 1919, under title: Bibliographical Opportunities in Horticulture. [See Bot. 

 Absts. 8, Entry 918.]— iVez7 E. Stevens. 



1802. Warner, M. F. A Virginia garden in 1774. Jour. Internat. Garden Club 3 : 191- 

 195. 1919. — Extracted with running comment from the diary of Philip Vickers Fithian, 

 while tutor at Nomini Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His observations on garden 

 plants and operations, and miscellaneous details of agricultural practice in that locality, 

 together with some notes on climate and times of flowering and fruiting are covered. — M. F. 

 Warner. 



1803. Whetzel, H. H. George Francis Atkinson. Guide to Nature 12 : 70-72. Portrait. 

 1919. — Popular account of Atkinson as mycologist. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1804. Whetzel, H. H., and H. B. Humphrey. Frederick Kj^lpin Ravn. Phytopathology 

 11: 1-5. Portrait. 1921. — A brief biographical sketch and appreciation. — B. B. Higgins. 



1805. Wilcox, E. M. Harvey Elmer Vasey. Phytopathology 9: 299-300. Portrait. 

 1919.— A sketch of H. E. Vasey (1890-1918).— iVeiZ E. Stevens. 



1806. W[iLLis], J. C. Dr. Alberto Lofgren. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 131: 57-58. 1919. 

 — He was born in Stockholm Sept. 1854, and studied at the University of Upsala, but accom- 

 panying the Regnell expedition to southern Brazil in 1874, he remained in that country all 

 his life, dying at Rio de Janeiro Aug. 30, 1918. His publications are comparatively few, 

 though he had the most complete knowledge of the Brazilian flora of any botanist of his time. 

 His collections are mostly at Sao Paulo and at Ptio de Janeiro, with duplicates at Copenhagen, 

 Stockholm, Berlin, and the Glaziou collection. — M. F. Warner. 



1807. Wilson", W. F. David Douglas, botanist at Hawaii. 83 p., illus. (including por- 

 traits). Honolulu, 1919. — Reprint of various materials relating to Douglas (1798-1834). — 

 Neil E. Stevens. 



1808. Woodruff, L. L. History of biology. Sci. Monthly 12: 253-281. 1921.— Biology 

 as the science of life really had its beginnings with the Greeks. Aristotle, Theophrastus, 

 Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Plinj', van Leeuwenhoek, Malpighi, Grew, Linnaeus, Harvey, 

 Cuvier, Huxley, Agassiz, Weismann, Mendel, Darwin, Gray, and many others are character- 

 ized in a few incisive statements. — L. Pace. 



1809. ZiRPOLO, G. Michele Geremicca. Riv. Biol. 2: 704-706. Portrait. 1920.— An 

 outline of the life and botanical work of Geremicca, who was born in Naples Nov. 9, 1857, 

 and died there June 17, 1920. He published many works, chiefly on morphology and physi- 

 ology, and was also greatly interested in the history of Italian botanists, publishing in the 

 Bullettino della Societa dei Naturalisti a few chapters of a systematic index to botanical 

 literature. — M. F. Warner. 



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C. Stuart Gager, Editor 

 Alfred Gundersen, Assistant Editor 



(See also in this issue Entries 1892, 1926, 2141, 2231) 



1810. Anonymous. Museums in education. Nature 106: 269-270. 1920.— An editorial 

 on the Final Report of Committee, British Association, Section L (Cardiff, 1920). The sug- 

 gestion is endorsed that there be a central council to aid in the inception of museums and 

 to coordinate their work when established. — 0. A. Stevens. 



1811. Anonymous. Programma onderwijs RijksbloemboUenschool. [Educational pro- 

 gram of the Government bulb school.] Weekbl. Bloembollencult. 30: 120. 1919.— The course 



