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culture, Washington, D. C, and of Dr. E. S. Bastin, Professor of 

 Botany in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. The latter was 

 most widely known for his school and college text-books and for 

 his writings on pharmaceutical botany. 



Dr. Emily L. Gregory, Professor of Botany in Barnard Col- 

 lege, New York, and Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the Toirey 

 Club, died April 21, 1897. She was the author of an "Elements 

 of Plant Anatomy" (1896), and reviewed many histological and 

 physiological papers for the Bulletin. 



In a pamphlet entitled "A Sketch of Cryptogamic Botany in 

 Harvard University, 1874-1896," Dr. Farlow gives us a history of 

 the first beginnings and subsequent growth of botanical instruction 

 in cryptogamic botany in that university, supplemented by an ac- 

 count of the research and graduate work and the facilities for such 

 work in the way of equipment, herbaria, etc. A list of "Contribu- 

 tions from the Cryptogamic Laboratory" is added from which it is 

 easy to infer the character of the facilities and equipment. The 

 titles of the papers are largely of the like nature. While graduate 

 students are permitted a certain range, "it has been accepted as a 

 principle that subjects of a morphological or histological character 

 of not too wide a range, are best adapted to those who are begin- 

 ning their scientific career, and that descriptive systematic work 

 should be postponed until a later period when practical experience 

 has strengthened the judgment and given a broader basis for the 

 discrimination of species." 



Dr. George James Pierce, Assistant Professor of Botany in 

 Indiana State University, has been called to the Stanford University 

 at Palo Alto, California, to take charge of the work in plant phy- 

 siology. He is a graduate of the Lawrence Scientific School of 

 Harvard University, and took his doctor's degree at Leipzig, where 

 he studied with Pfeffer. He also studied with Strasburger at Bonn. 

 We have his papers "On the Structure of the Haustoria of Some 

 Phanerogamic Parasites" (Annals of Botany, Sept., 1893), Notes 

 on Corticium Oakesii, B. & C, and Michenera Artoceras, B. & C. 

 (Bull. Torr. Club, xvii, 301), and Das Eindringen von Wurzeln in 

 lehendige gewebe (Bot. Zeit., 1894). 



