Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. V[. JUNE, 1881. No. 6. 



Editorial. — In Dr. Rothrock's paper in the May number 

 of the Gazette, page 205, fifth line from the top. jA inch should 

 read i)^ inches. In our next number Dr. Rothrock will contribute a 

 paper in which he will contrast German and American modes of teach- 

 ing 



Summer Schools of Botany seem to be multiplying in our country. 

 Western teachers have begun to demand opportunities of this kind 

 nearer than the Atlantic seaboard. Accordingly, the editor of this 

 journal has thrown open the botanical . laboratory of Wabash College 

 to all who desire to spend six weeks in such work, the term to begin 

 July 6th. No sooner had this scheme been well started than there 

 comes a circular from the University of Minnesota stating that a sum- 

 mer school of Botany will be conducted there, beginning July 5th. 

 This school will be under the charge of Prof. C. E. Bessey, than 

 whom there is no western teacher more competent. We are only 

 glad that these two schools are too far apart to feel in the slightest 

 way each other's presence, for the attractions would be all too much 

 on one side if the element of distance did not help to counterbalance. 



The Syracuse Botanical Club has had a recasting of its offi- 

 cers, owing to the resignation of some of the former incumbents. 

 The present officers are as follows: President, Mrs. S. M. Rust; 

 Vice Pres., Mrs Still; Cor. Sec, Mrs. Chas. Barnes; Rec. Sec, 

 Mrs. J. M. Rowling; Treas., Mrs. A. D. Fairbanks. 



A Guide to the Literature of Botany is being published in 

 London, which will contain a classified collection of botanical works, 

 including nearly 6,000 titles not given in Pritzel's Thesaurus. It is 

 edited by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, Secretary to the Linnean Socit^ty. 

 Orders should be sent to Dulau & Co., Booksellers, 37, Soho Square, 

 London. 



The Flora of Indiana, through Composites, has now been com- 

 pleted. This part of the work has been done, and well done, by Prof. 

 Chas R. Barnes of LaFayette. With this number we give the first 

 installment after ComposiUe, the re.st of the work being directly from the 

 hands of the editors of the Gazette. Hence to them will hereafter 

 be addressed any communication in regard to the Catalogue. 



Mr. Joseph F. James, of Cincinnati, has presented to the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural History an interesting paper ''On the Geograj)hical 

 Distribution of the Indigenous Plants of the Northeast United States." 

 It makes a pamphlet of 17 pages and brings together in small space 



