NOTES. 



Nevada Station. — F. Stadtmuller has been appointed assistant chemist. 



New Hampsiiir?: Station. — As a result of an examination by the tuberculin test, 

 the station herd has been found affected with tuberculosis. Out of a herd of about 

 60, 9 have been condemned, and of these 3 have been slaughtered. The condemned 

 animals have been separated from the rest of the herd, and the test will be applied 

 again in about 6 weeks. The milk from these animals is to be used for experimental 

 purposes. 



Papers presented before the Botanical Club of the American Association 

 FOR the Advancement of Science. — The following informal papers were presented 

 before the Botanical Club during the meeting of tho American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science at Bi-ooklyn, N. Y., August 16-21, 1894: The germination of 

 the macrospores of Marsilia resfita, C. E. Bessey ; Tannin as a mordant for staining 

 cell membranes, E. F. Smith; Tannin as a mordant for staining protoplasmic struc- 

 tures, F. C. Newcombe; The use of measures in the identification of grasses, W. J. 

 Beal; The decrease of oat smut in Vermont, L. R. Jones; Formalin as a preserving 

 fluid, B. T. Gallowaj-, E. F. Smith, and G. H. Hicks; The check list of plants of the 

 Northeastern States, X. L. Britton ; The bacterial diseases of cucumbers, E. F. Smith ; 

 Extreme decapitalization, C. E. Bessey: A Ea'matococcus for class demonstration 

 of motile gametes, L. R. .Tones; Sporangial trichomes on certain ferns, E.J. Duraud; 

 The significance of stipules from the standpoint of paleobotany, A. Hollick ; Eustichia 

 norvegica fruiting in Wisconsin, C. R. Barnes; Gonidial chains of Entijloma flmrkece, 

 J. J. Davis; Solandi printing of variegated leaves, B. D. Halsted; A better pro- 

 nunciation of botanical terms, C. E. Bessey; Tho peach-spotting fungus as a leaf 

 parasite, B. D. Halsted; Development of Olipidium S])., E. J. Durand; A peculiar 

 discoloration of the pteonia leaf, B. D. Halsted ; A simple method of making pure 

 cultures of fungi, E. F. Smith; The work of the botanical seminar of Nebraska, 

 C. E. Bessey and R. Pound; The killing of young pear shoots by excessive trans- 

 piration, M. B. Waite; and Staining of the fiagella of bacteria, M. B. Waite. 



Botanical papers read at the meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. — The following papers were read before section G 

 (botany), at the meeting of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., August 16-21, 1894: The growth of radishes as affected by the size 

 and weight of the seed, B. T. Galloway; Movement of gases in rhizomes, K. Golden; 

 The sugar maples of Central Michigan, W. J. Beal ; Some affinities among Cactacew, 

 J. M. Coulter; Simplification and degeneration of structure in angiosperms, C. E. 

 Bessey; Regulatory growth of mechanical tissue, F. C. Newcombe; Further studies 

 in the relationship and arrangement of the families of flowering plants, C. E. 

 Bessey; The watermelon disease of the South, E. F. Smith; Preliminary note on the 

 relation between the sterile and fertile leaves of Onoclea, G. F. Atkinson; Lophopap- 

 pns, a new genus of mutisiaceous Compositce, and Fluckifjeria, a new genus of Gesner- 

 iaeew, H. H. Rusby; Preliminary note on the swarm spores of Pythium and Ceratio- 

 myxa, G.F.Atkinson; A revision of the genus Scouleria, E. G. Britton; Evidence as 

 to the former existence of large trees on Nantucket Island, B. G. Wilbur; Notes on 

 the primary foliage and leaf scars of Pinus rujida, N. L. Britton; Notes on Chalara 

 paradoxa, C. E. Bessey; A hybrid among mosses, E. G. Britton; Notes on a root rot 



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