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societies, both Italian and foreign, Prof. Dr. Pier Andrea Sac- 
cardo, passed away serenely in Padua in his 74th year, after a life 
devoted even to his last days to the progress of botanical science 
and of mycology, to his family and to his country.” 
Bees ina Botanic Garden—We learn from the Quarterly Sum- 
mary of the Royal Botanic Society of London, for July, 1919, 
that a hive of bees was installed in the Students’ Garden in 1918 
in connection with the Fellows’ Children’s Outdoor School, and 
a second hive was added in the spring of 1919. The report states 
that “ Apart from its educational value the visit of the bees has 
resulted in a great improvement in the amount of seed produced 
by plants in the Gardens.” In this connection it may be stated 
that a hive of bees was placed in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on 
June 1, 1919. ‘There has been no evidence in the Botanic Garden 
that the presence of these bees has produced any effect on the 
amount of seed produced by the plants in the Garden. 
The Botanic Garden library has just received the initial num- 
ber of a new garden magazine entitled Gartenschonheit, eine 
_ Zeitschrift nut Bildern fiir Garten- und Blumenfreund. fiir 
' Liebhaber und Fachmann. The first number appeared in April, 
1920, published in Berlin, Germany. The large size of the pages 
(10” x 14”) affords opportunity for the numerous half tone and 
colored illustrations of plant life and gardens. The annual sub- 
scription price in Germany is twelve Marks, The editor-in-chief 
is Oskar Kuhl, in association with Karl Foerster, Harry Maas and 
Camillo Schneider. 
- Mycological Notes, No. 61, dated October, 1919, edited and 
published by C. G. Lloyd, was received at the Botanic Garden 
Library last March in mimeographed form. The introductory 
paragraph reads as follows: “ The appearance of this publication 
in mimeographed form is due to the High Cost of Printing. In 
order to meet the arbitrary and unreasonable demands of organ- 
ized labor the price of printing has advanced until it has become 
prohibitive for a publication of this kind. In future we shali 
therefore issue as mimeographed sheets at about one quarter the 
