172 Instrumente etc. — Botanische Gärten und Institute. 



In a discussion which followed, Mr. C. B. Clark e, and 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., confirmed the accuracy of Mr. 

 C h r i s t y ' s observations. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart, communicated the substance of a paper 

 entitled „Further observations on Stipules", in continuation 

 of a former paper communicated by him to the Society on the 

 18th March htst. The present paper, which was illustrated by 

 diagrams, has reference, inter alia, to the Ash, Hop, and two 

 species of Pea {Lathyrus gandiflora and L. pratensis). 



Mr. W. Carruthers, in commenting upon this paper, 

 expressed the satisfaction which he was sure would be feit by 

 botanists at the way in which the author was carefully working 

 out details in the life-history of British plants, and in that respect 

 conforming to the spirit of the Charter of the Society which 

 expressly dehned tlie object of its formation to be „the culti- 

 vation of the science of natural history in all its branches, and 

 more especially of the Natural History of Great Britain and 

 Ireland." 



Prof. Coiiway Macmillan, of the University of Minnesota, 

 communicated the principal points of a paper „OnMinor Tension- 

 lines between Plant-formatians." 



Instrumente, Präparations- und Conservations- 

 Methoden etc. 



Fleurent, E., Sur la determiuatiou de la compositiou iramediate du gluten des 



farines de bl^. (Comptes reudus des s^ances de TAcad^mie des sciences de 



Paris. T. CXXIV. 1897. No. 18. p. 978—979.) 

 Aliclielj Sur le coIlage des coupes de paraffiiie par simple des.siccafiou et sur 



le chioix des paralfines. (Comptes rendus hebdomadaires de la Soci^t^ de 



biologie. 1897. 5. Jiiin.) 



Botanische Crärten und Institute. 



Dalt'ert, F. W., Relatione annual do Institute Agro- 

 nomico do Estado de S. Paulo (Brazil) em Campinas 

 1894 e 1895. Volume VII e VIII. S. Paulo 1896. 



Der Bericht enthält folgende Arbeiten, über welche auch in 

 deutscher Sprache referirt ist: 



1. Datfert, F. W. und Bollinger, R.: Untersuchungen 

 über die einheimischen Futterpflanzen. Der Zweck 

 der schon seit Jahren im Gange befindlichen Untersuchungen 

 ist die Auswahl von Futterpflanzen, welche sich den in Brasilien 

 massgebenden landwirthschattlichen Verhältnissen anzupassen ver- 

 mögen. Es werden im vorliegenden Bande behandelt : Paspalum 



