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including innumerable things of less importance a the college student or 
general reader is sure to desire to know. While Dr. Vines’ book lacks this 
and in a way suited only to advanced students. It therefore supplements its 
predecessor in such a way that no one can do without either. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
PROFEsSOR C. R. RNES oo returned from Cambridge to the duties of his professor- 
ship in Purdue Univer 
REE NUMBERS ooke's British Desmids are now issued. This work forms a con- 
tinuation of the aa 8 British Fresh-water Alga 
Rey. J. M. CRomBIe begins an Index x adele eropienmeies tp in the last number of 
Grevillea, after the most recent Nylanderian arrangement, 
XWELL MAsTER’s “‘ Vegetable Teratology *’ en translated into German ie 
Mr. Udo Waamiée: and published by Hassel, of eae teas notes and wood cu 
have sagen added. 
BR. FREDERICK LEROY SARGENT has accepted the Chair of vai in tes lane of 
Wisonsn, = Manon, seta was resigned by Prof. A. B: Seymour. Mr. S has al- 
ready n his d 
AM HARVEY et SON, oe several years Professor Coulter’s assistant, | 
professorship of botany in — oe a Hastings, Nebraska. His position at serio’ 
College has been filled by N. Rose 
THE ADDRESs of Mr. a ‘realaeeit of the biological section of the British Asso- 
ciation at pote recent Birmingham meeting, dealt with the past history of those plants 
which still form a portion of the existing flora. 
_ Pror. Ce 8. SARGENT Writes that there should be added to blished list of Dr. En- 
May, a ie plapiad on “ The Genus Euphor- 
bia in in DeCandolie’s Sey omy i Am, Jour. Sei. ity 291. 
Phallus) sometimes becomes very obnoxious when growing 
near taonee, W. G. Smith, i gen Gardeners irae , recommends sue a strong s0- 
lution of carbolic acid to dats the fungus and prevent ‘ts starting 
CYPRI the mountains of China is a notable saitin to an al- 
ready a considerable ae ae Shateace species, divided between E. North America and 
E. Asia. It is annou by M. Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. de panes xxxiii. ‘a 
THE SEASON of aes Nebraska and Iowa gave a heavy crop of the cluster-cup on green 
ash, Zeidium Fraxini, but the mike are almost free from it the present year A query a8 
to the cause of this unexpected change is raised by Professor this in the last a 
Naturalist. 
NAVAJO names of plants are clon of in an entertaining article by Dr. W- Mat 
thews in the September American Naturalist. The list comprises about one hundred species 
including many small or rope ncen bits capa wie which it is surprising the Indians should 
have names for. 
Mr. ein F. SMITH, , recently assistant i in the gms laboratory of the University 2 
Michigan, has mycological ne of ape 
8. Department of Apoitnge. He will first take up the posal of the F 
-Morthiera fruit 
Dr. HENRY 4 OsBoRN, prormnie Zodlogy in anor University, has u 
editorshi bi 
the p of the American Som nthly ‘ieroscopical J nat during the pees 9 nce of ME 
Hitchcock in Japan. Dr. Osborn rti i jurul 
_ the microscope in the true light as means and not the end. This means that o 
will beably edited, and wi with epeotal sete ference to useful work with the microscope. 
