NOTES AND NEWS. 
E Botanicat Society oF Iraty celebrated the centennial of its 
establishment April 15-23d. 
Dr. ALFRED Kocu has been a deena’ a.-o. professor of vegetable 
physiology i in the University of ‘Cbtti ting 
FORTHCOMING supplementary ut of Saccardo’s Pheri 
Ss will be XI, and not IX as stated in the April Gaz 
- Havarp has published, in Budi, Torr. Bot. Club tare, 
very i fiiverestisie paper on the food plants of the North American 
n 
Pror. L. H. BarLey contributes to the special spring trade edition 
of the. Florists Exchange (7: 387. 30 Mr 1895) an account of the evo- 
lution of American horticultur 
Gaston, oe DE 8 ON died at Aix, Provence, on January 
26, at the of 72. He was pre-eminent among students of the fossil 
flora of Tentiagy and Mesozoic formations. 
Pror. Leon Guicnarp has received the high honor of election to 
the habe Academy, succeeding the late Duchartre. Botanists will 
heartily approve this action as a recognition of genuine merit. 
Mr. E ON, who has become known to American botanists 
chiefly thr rough his book (in conjunction with Mr. Francis Darwin) en- 
titled “Practical Physiology of Plants,” died suddenly at Canbiidse, 
ngland, from heart disease, on February 15th. 
A NEW PLANT HOUSE over 170 feet long, and of handsome construc- 
tion, has been erected at the Central Experiment Station of Cali- 
fornia. It cost about $13,500. It is located beside the botanic garden 
of the University, what has now become an important adjunct of the 
botanical departm 
“SPRAY etal sent out by the horticultural department 
of the Cornell Experiment Station, both last year and this, givin a 
rections for combating plant diseases, has beeen reprinted by the 
Souri Station and Moeger? imitated by others. It is a model in ay 
of concise statemen 
Tu TH OF foe SpracuE, which occurred March 15th at his 
home in 1 Wellesley Hills, Mass., removes a botanical artist whose name 
a always be closely associated with that of Dr. Asa Gray. There 
4 nothi ing finer at the time than Sprague’s illustrations, and his 
dies set the pattern for later botanical artists. 
pat biology, experimenta chology a agony. « The 
course in ‘ “biology” pig: the faintest ten trace of a Botanical side to it, 
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