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On a convenient method of subjecting living cells to Coloring 

 Agents, by George L. Goodale. (Title). 



The next meeting of the Association will be held at Indian- 

 apolis, and we are sure that it will give pleasure to the readers 

 of the Bulletin to learn that it will be under the presidency of 

 Professor George Lincoln Goodale. 



Botanical Notes. 



The University of Pennsylvania has recently issued a large 

 octavo volume entitled " Handbook of Information concerning 

 the School of Biology/' giving full accounts of the advantages 

 offered by that institution for the study of the Natural Sciences. 

 The claim is made ''that Philadelphia is better suited for the pur- 

 suit of biological study than almost any other American city, 

 and it would certainly appear from the volume before us that the 

 faculty of this School of Biology will substantiate the statement. 



Greeneria fiiliginea in Italy. In a recent issue of the '*Nuovo 

 Giornale Botanico Italiano " (Vol. xx. 441), record is made of the 

 occurrence of this fungus of the vine in Vittorio, northern Italy, 

 where it is also stated that the parasite had hitherto been un- 

 known except in the United States. 



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Me7noirs of the Club, Vol. i, No. 2, of the Memoirs, con- 



taining Mr. Martindale's paper on " Mari 

 Jersey Coast and adjacent waters of Stater 

 distribution to members and subscribers. 



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Reviews of Foreign Literature. 



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In the " Revue Generale de Botanlque " for April, 1889, M. 

 Gaston Bonnier gives a continuation of his researches on the syn- 

 thesis of lichens and their germination on the protonema of 

 mosses, the first portion of which was reviewed by Miss Gregory 

 in the January Bulletin. M. Bonnier adds no new species of 

 mosses to those already enumerated, but illustrates his paper by 

 a colored plate showing in fig. i the green protonema o( Dicra- 



