NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE EDITORSHIP of Pringsheim’s /ahrbicher fir eee enre 
Botanik has been taken by Professors Pfeffer and Strasburger 
MacmMILLan & Co. announce a rural science series to be edited by 
Prof. L. H. Bailey of Cornell University. The first number will ap- 
pear shortly. 
MEEHAN’s MonTHLyY will add hereafter four pages to its monthly 
issue. The fine colored plates, executed by Prang & Co., will be con- 
tinued, which alone are worth the subscription price 
APPLIED BOTANY takes on many forms. It is announced that a so- 
ciety composed of students of the American Brewing Academy of 
Chicago numbers 200 members. The society has the unique name, 
SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIA. 
THE BACTERIAL DISEASE of sugar ee first described in 1892 by J. 
C. Arthur and Katherine E. Golden, has been detected in Germany 
by Paul Sorauer. It is co raiders a Aue disease to “sereh,” a de- 
Structive disease of sugar cane. 
FAVORABLE RESULTS in spraying to prevent black knot of plum 
trees have teat obtained =. Mr. E.G G. Lod eman (Garden and Forest 
7: 508). work seems to show, eleanevae that the life-history of 
the rng still presents ieucki that needs elucidating, or at leas 
verifying 
AND EveruartT have recently published in the Seige 
of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences descriptions of 241 new spe- 
cies of fungi, distributed among the following orders: Hymenomy- 
cetes Io, peencuareess 71, Discomycetes 22, Sphzropsidez g2, and 
Hyphomycetes 
AMERICAN BOTANISTS should not let the opportunity pass to secure 
sets of both European and North American mosses put up by Messrs. 
Renauld and Cardot of France, and distributed in this country through 
Mr. J. M. Holzinger of eee Minn. The price is moderate, and 
the specimens very desirab 
E LAST NUMBER of ‘Sockatearal Science, which recently appeared, 
is given as June-September, 1894. It is mostly oc copied with the pro- 
ceedings of the Society for the Seomeate of Agricultural Science. 
This journal, althou ugh an excellent one, na occupying a place not 
filled by any other, is evidently having a struggle to keep alive. 
THE ACETIC ACID ORGANISM, heretofore known as Mycoderma aceti, 
has been separated by Hansen in a recent publication from the Carls- 
— * Poa into two forms, which are called Bacterium aceti 
B. Pasteurianum. The former is colored yellow by iodine and 
the latter bine! The transfer to the genus Bacterium was suggested 
opt. 
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