ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 595 



Stanley Gardiner on the " Sealark " expedition to the Indian Ocean, 

 which will be described more fully by Foslie in the Transactions of 

 the Linntean Society. The present paper forms the third part of his 

 Algologiske Notiser. 



Formation of Algal Paper.* — J. TV. Harshberger describes felted 

 masses of material collected on the margins of ponds, lakes and 

 reservoirs in the United States. He finds it is composed of the matted 

 remains of green algte and diatoms that had been blown together by the 

 wind and later dried so as to form sheets of so-called paper. Some of 

 these consist of almost pure masses of one species, such as Q^dogonium 

 fragile or Navicula sp., and the felted mass varies in texture according to 

 the species of which it is composed. Some of the sheets resemble an 

 asbestos-like felt. 



Nomenclature for Algae. f — F. S. Collins calls attention to the 

 Vienna rules of botanical nomenclature in so far as they apply to algae. 

 According to the present arrangement, all botanical nomenclature begins 

 with the Species Plantarum of Linnjeus, but the author contends that 

 this work might be regarded as a " point " for starting, but certainly not 

 as a " base," on account of the quite insignificant space devoted in it to 

 cellular cryptogams. He considers that Nordstedt's plan of regarding 

 Ralf's British Desmidies as the basis of nomenclature for Desmids is 

 quite good, and though at first it may seem undesirable to have different 

 starting points for different families of algas, he believes that it may be 

 the best solution of the problem. Nordstedt also proposes that three 

 monographs dated 1888, 1893 and 1900 should be used for bases in their 

 respective sections, i.e. Nostocaceae, Heterocyste^, Oscillarieae, and CEdo- 

 goniaceaB. The author leaves it to the opponents of this system to 

 suggest a better one. 



Obituary of A. Le Jolis.:j: — L. Corbiere publishes a necrological notice 

 and a portrait of Auguste Fran9ois Le Jolis, b. 1828, d. 1904, founder 

 and director of the Societe Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathe- 

 matiques de Cherbourg. He reprints the speeches delivered over Le 

 JoUs' grave by Corbiere and Langlois, in which are many facts as to 

 his hfe ; and in succeeding lists he enumerates the societies with which 

 Le Jolis was connected, the honours he received, and the works he 

 pubHshed, several of which were concerned with marine algae. 



Obituary of F. R. Kjellmann.§ — G. B. de Toni writes a short notice 

 of the late F. R. Kjellmann, who died shortly before the Linnsean 

 celebrations at Upsala this year. He was born at Torso on Nov. 4, 1846, 

 took his degree at Upsala in 1872, and in the same year was appointed a 

 teacher in botany. He travelled in Nova Zembla, Siberia, and Spitz- 

 bergen between 1873 and 1875, and from 1878-1880 he took part as 

 botanist in the voyage of the " Vega." From 1883 until his death he 

 held the Chair of Botany at the University of Upsala. He published 

 many botanical papers, of which a list is given ; the two most important 

 were the AlgEe of the Arctic Sea and his Monograph of Galaxaura. 



* Torreya, vii. (1907) pp. 141-2. f Rhodora, ix. (1907) pp. 77-80. 



X Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Math. Cherbourg, xxxv. (1905-6) pp. i.-xx. (portrait). 

 § Nuov. Notar., xviii. (1907) pp. 121-5. • 



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