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stations for each species and that stich records be continued in 
succeeding years so that in the case of the fleshy fungi and algae 
especially more reliable information as to their occurrence and 
distribution than is now available may be accumulated.” 
Science for April 24, 1914, contains the following news item: 
“The seventieth birthday, on March 25, of Professor Adolf 
Engler, the director of the Royal Botanic Garden and Museum at 
Dahlem, near Berlin, was celebrated in the presence of many emi- 
nent German and foreign botanists, by several functions. Accord- 
ing to the account in Nature, on the day itself, Professor Pax, 
rector of the University of Breslau, with Professors Diels and 
Gilg, as its editors, presented to Professor Engler a copy of the 
Fest-Band of Engler’s “Botanische Jahrbitcher.”” The volume 
forms a supplement to the fiftieth volume of this publication, and 
consists of more than forty illustrated contributions, largely from 
his pupils. Professor Haberlandt presented Professor Engler, on 
behalf of hundreds of subscribers, with his life-size marble bust, 
‘the work of the sculptor, A. Manthe. On March 26 there was a 
banquet at which the official world was represented, and on March 
27 the monthly meeting of the Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft 
was converted into an “Engler” meeting, and Professor von 
Wettstein gave, by special invitation, a lecture on the phylogenetic 
evolution of the Angiosperm flower. It will be recalled that Pro- 
fessor Engler planted a tulip tree in the native wild flower section 
of the Garden on October 16, 1913. 
Professor Philippe Edouard Leon Van Tieghem, Member of 
the Institute, for many years professor of botany at the Museum 
d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and eminent for his contributions to 
plant anatomy, plant physiology, and systematic botany, died in 
Paris on April 28, at the age of seventy-five years. 
Prof. IH. M. Hall, of the University of California, department 
of botany, visited the Garden on June 16. In the Recorp for 
January, 1913, attention was called to the plans, now being devel- 
oped, for a new botanic garden at the University. 
