2iS The Botanical Gazette. [July, 



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Dr. Paul Sorauer, and with the assistance of many able investigators, 

 including Prof. Farlow, Prof. Humphrey and Mr. Galloway, of this 

 country. The price is M. 15 ($3.75) a year. The editor is the author 

 of the largest and best treatise on plant diseases yet published, and 

 the foremost investigator in this line of study. The journal will un- 

 doubtedly prove specially acceptable and serviceable to "a large circle 



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of investigators. 



The California Botanical Club was organized March 7th. In re- 

 sponse.to a call from Dr. H. W. Harkness and others a meeting was 

 held in the herbarium room of the California Academy of Science at 

 which the objects of the proposed club were set forth. May 2nd the 

 charter roll of members was declared closed with 99 names. The list 

 includes a considerable number of the more prominent botanists 

 about San Francisco, but a few names are conspicuous by their ab- 

 sence. The club is to meet on the first and third Saturdays of each 

 month at the rooms of the California Academy. 



Miss Rosine Masson died in Lausanne, May 6th, aged 83 years. 

 Ihe deceased had attained a wide reputation' in Europe and was 

 known m this country by her extensive collections and distributing of 

 alpine plants, principally collected by herself even to her very last 

 days, l'he specimens distributed by her showed great care in prepara- 

 tion and identification. Besides rendering valuable contributions to 

 the knowledge of the flora of Switzerland, she deserves much credit for 

 the assistance she has given to the study of botany by her magnificent 



collections, deposited in several of the most prominent scientific in- 

 stitutions.— T K. * 



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gives the comparative results arrived at by Dr. George Canera in study- 

 ing the various forms of swine epidemic, known under the names of 

 hog-cholera, swine-plague, swine-pest, etc. 1 he germs were obtained 

 from about a dozen of the most prominent investigators, and were 

 uniformly grown upon and in various media, and their behavior caie- 

 tuliy compared. The germs were found to belong to several different 

 species, and to fall into three well marked classes, dependent upon 

 tneir movement and other characters. Billings' swine-plague and 

 baimon s hog-cholera germs are said to be specifically different. 



Another revolution has taken place in the matter qf postage on 



botanical s imens. The act of Congress, approved Tulv 24, 1888. 



fixed the postage on « seeds, cuttings, roots, scions and plants . . at 



S u ° n f ;. ent J for each Uvo ounces or fraction (hereof." But 



the May ] osta Guide contains a ruling by the Third Assistant Post- 

 master-General by which//-/,-,/ plants and cut fhwers are specincaHj 

 excluded from the provisions of this act and declared subject to the 



2L"\J5 ° l J n ^ e "* 1 / lvhat ,e & ero -emain of logic this conclusion 

 was r rhed the oth< d document fails to state: but until more com 



^SISSSL U ST aC V )f Con F ess supervenes botanists will have 

 to double the post : on their packages. 



