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of pharmaceutical research, has been awarded to Edward 

 Morell Holmes, F. L. S., secretary of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society, London, England. Mr. Holmes is well known by 

 his pharmaco-botanical papers in the Pharmaceutical Jour- 

 nal and elsewhere, and his Algae Britannicae Rar lores 

 Exsiccatae. — J. Burtt Davy. 



Mr. Oliver A. Farwell, writing in the October Bulletin 

 of Pharmacy on myrrh says, " the African and Arabian 

 myrrhs * * * are the exuded gum of a palm, the Balsamo- 

 dendron Schimperl, and its several varieties. The ' balsam ' 

 of the Hebrews is the exudation of another palm, the Com- 

 miphora OpobalsamumP As a matter of fact the Dicoty- 

 ledonous genus Commiphora, of which Balsamodendron is a 

 synonym, belongs to the Burseraceae and is in no way nearly 

 related to the Monocotyledonous Order to which the palms 

 belong. It is misleading to apply the name palm to plants so 

 widely different.— J. Burtt Davy. 



Mr. Alfred J. McClatchie has been appointed Professor 

 of Agriculture and Horticulture in the University of Arizona. 

 His present address is Phoenix, Arizona. 



