188 The Botanical Gazette. [April, 
THE METHODS AND AIMs of the horticultural department of Cornell 
University are set forth with some detail in an interesting article in 
the American Florist (10: 557. 12 Ja 1895) by Mr. Michael Barker. 
While the methods pursued are strictly scientific and the results often 
of great interest to botanists, the primary design of the work is to de- 
velop the knowledge and practice of horticulture. 
THE PROCEEDINGS of the Davenport Academy of Sciences (6: part 
i . C.C. Parry, and also a bio- 
graphical sketch by Dr. C. H. Preston. Mrs. Parry also furnishes a 
complete list of titles, the number of which is much larger than bot- 
AN EMERGENCY POSTER, in relation to Russian thistle, printed ona 
sheet 20 by 24 inches, has been sent out by the Ohio. Experiment Sta- 
OTANICAL WORK at the Department of Agriculture is developing 
rapidly in the number of separate organizations and is increasing 1m 
os ivision of Vegetable Pathology has had Physiology 
added to its title, an enlargement of name to cover physiological work 
which has been going on for some time. The Division of Grasses and 
of Botany. These two Divisions, with those of Botany and Forestry, 
constitute a broad range of botanical investigation, and should y ield 
large results 
year 
parasites, and the second part general, technical and agricultural bac- 
teriology and plant diseases. It will be a saving of much labor and 
a great convenience to have the non-pathological portion of bactefl- 
ology free from the overshadowing and bulky pathological part, for 
which biologists especially will doubtless be grateful. 
F. BoERGESEN has begun the publication in Pasa de Botanique 
(Jan. 1) of a paper on the leaves of Arctic plants. The present number 
contains an account of the epidermis, including the stomata and. 
transpiration tissues. A large list of Arctic plants has been examined 
