NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. W. J. V. OsTERHOUT is to spend the next college year in study 
in Germany. 
Mr. E. W. D. Hotway sailed for Europe on May 18th to be gone 
for sixty days. 
THE Kew Bulletin for March contains the descriptions of ten new 
species of ferns (seven of them Polypodiums) from western China, 
d a long list of African novelties. 
E BOTANICAL collections made by Miss Mary E. Gilbreth were 
lately presented in her memory to Radcliffe College (Harvard Annex) 
by her mother, Mrs. Martha Bunker Gilbreth. 
Mr. A. ANDERSON, assistant in the Department of Vegetable 
Physiology in the University of Minnesota, has gone abroad to study, 
intending to remain two years, most of the time in Munich. 
Tue University or Cotorapo dedicated on March gth the Hale 
scientific building, of which the third floor is devoted to biology. 
€ arrangements in the laboratory and museum are said to be “ad- 
mirable in every respect.” 
Mr. D. T. MacDoueat, in charge of vegetable physiology in the 
University of Minnesota, sailed on the City of Rome, May 25th, for 
THE LEAFLETS of Menyanthes trifoliata are given as “entire or Ié- 
and.” It has recently been found with distinctly three-lobed leaf- 
ets. Again, although it is a constant feature, I have never seen any 
ee of the marginal glands at the crenatures of the leaflets— 
y 
THE FOURTH annual session of the summer school at the University 
of Minnesota will begin July 29th and close August 23d, 1895. Iwo 
E MEETING of the National Academy of Sciences in April, 
Professor Charles S. Sargent of Harvard University was elected to 
membership, and Professor Julius von Sachs of Wiirzburg, Germany, 
was made foreign associate. This is a good showing for botany, a5 
only four members, and three foreign associates all told were elected 
at this session. 
HE FIRST VOLUME Of the Conspectus Flore Africana (vol. V, Mon- 
ocotyledones) by Th. Durand has recently been published. Whereas 
a volume of 500 pages was promised, it really contains 977 
nevertheless no increase has been made in the price (20 fr.) The ar 
mainder of the work will appear by half volumes. Vol. 1, part 2, wil 
be published before autumn. 
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