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NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Richard Schomburgk, director of the Botanic Gardens at Ade- 

 lade, South Australia, died March 24, aged 80 years. 



Correction.— The name of J. N. Rose .should be inserted as joint 

 author with J. M. Coulter of the new species, Coursetia axillaris, pub- 

 lished last month, p. 180. 



Von Klinggraeff has observed Drosera Anglica in west Prussia 

 catching butterflies— Papilio Daplidice and P. Rapae— through the co- 

 operation of several leaves. . ! 



Dr. George Macloskie, of Princeton college, has charge of the 

 biological work at "The Seaside Assembly," at Avon-by-the-sea, N. J., 

 during this summer. The work extends from July 5th to August 28th. 



An expedition has been organized to study Mt. Orizaba, Mexico, 

 during the present summer. Mr. Henry E. Seaton will act as botanist 



and make a study of the flora in relation to altitude and other condi- 

 tions. 



Professor John M. Coulter will spend much of the summer along 

 the Mexican border studying the Cactacece. The work is under the 

 direction of the Department of Agriculture. Messrs. Walter H. 

 Evans and G. C Nealley will act as assistants. 



Rev. F. D. Kelsey, of Helena, Montana, has been endeavoring to 

 stir up the spirit of botany in his state by delivering courses of lec- 

 tures in the different colleges. During the last year he has delivered 

 these courses at Wesleyan College, Helena, and College of Montana, at 

 Deer Lodge. 



, With the beginning of the second volume, Zoe, the biologic I 

 journal of the Pacific coast, becomes a quarterly, and several biologista 

 are associated with Mr. Brandegee as editors. We fear that the pub- 

 lication of the numbers at so long intervals will be disadvant; eous. 

 I he April number has a lithograph portrait of Dr. II. W. Harkness as 

 a frontispiece. 



A directory of European botanists has just been issued by Wilhelm 

 kngelmann, of Leipzig, under the title Botanisches Adressbuch, winch 

 will be of much service to correspondents. A new edition of Cassino - 

 International Scientists' Directory is being prepared, and will be issued 

 early the coming year. Such works are of value in proportion to their 

 completeness and accuracy, and every person owes it to his fellow 

 workers to see that his own address is properly inserted. 



Errata.— The following corrections should be made in Mr. Hitch- 

 cock's article on West Indian plants. Page 137, line 3 from bottom 

 and p. 1 38, line 3, for sap read sop; line 20, for savory, curry; fotnote 

 2 4, for Rollinia Sieberi, Anona squamosa; footnote 26, for Anona 



uamosa, A. muricata; p. 138, line 12, for mashed, washed; line 4 

 from bottom, for ocara, ochra; footnote 42. for Abelmoschus moscna- 

 J l 's, . ■/. esculentus; footnote 41, for Lechiura, Sechium; p. 140. line 2 > 



for pie,/m/ line 5, for roots, nuts; line 15, for Lucca, Lit r. 



