NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE SYLLOGE Funcorvum by Prof. P. A. Saccardo is to be continued. 
Volume IX is now in preparation. ; 
THE PLANT INDIVIDUAL in the light of evolution is the title of a pa- 
per by Prof. L. H. Bailey, read before the Biological Society of Wash- 
ington on Jan. 12th. 
THE MicroscopPicaL BULLETIN will be issued by Queen & Co. for 
the present year as heretofore. It appears bimonthly, at the enpatid 
tion price of 25 cents a year, and contains many good things for work- 
ers with the microscope. 
MarRCH NUMBER Of the American Microscopical Journal is of spe- 
cial interest to botanists, inasmuch as it contains a good portrait of 
Dr. Samuel Lockwood, so well known among the botanical fraternity, 
and also an artificial key to the genera of lichens, prepared by Mr. L. 
A. Willson 
_ THE SUMMER SCHOOL at the University of Wisconsin offers botanical 
instruction by Professor Barnes, Dr. R. H. Tru d Mr. F. D. Heald. 
ourses in genera phology and i tal physiology, and spe- 
cial work for advanced students are offered. The school begins July 
8th and closes August 16th. 
IN THE summer school of Cornell University, July 8th-August 16th, 
botany will be in charge of Prof. Rowlee. Courses are offered in sys- 
tematic botany and histology; also a “general course” consisting of 
lectures upon the natural groups of plants accompanied by appro- 
priate studies in the field and laboratory. 
A SUMMER SCHOOL of cryptogamic botany will be held in the labor- 
atory of the Cambridge Botanical Supply Co., Cambridge, Mass., begin- 
hing July 5, 1895, and continuing five weeks. Laboratory work and 
lectures will embrace courses in general cryptogamic botany for teach- 
ers, Covering recommendations of “Committee of Ten,” and economic 
mycology for investigators, with special attention to culture methods 
and literature. 
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€rn portions of the Gulf states. The publication is Bulletin 44 of the 
Division of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
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