330 The Botanical Gazette. [July, 
Minor Notices. 
A MOST COMMENDABLE undertaking has been begun by Mr. C. G. 
Lloyd of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is photographing the larger fungi, nat- 
ural size, upon plates 6 by 8 inches. These are distributed to friends, 
and so great an acquisition are they that any one interested in fungi 
will consider himself exceedingly fortunate to be counted upon the 
list of recipients. The first distribution consisted of the three species: 
Morchella conica, Peziza badia, and Lycoperdon separans. The selec- 
tion of specimens is excellent, and the photographic work is beyond 
all criticism. This distribution was so warmly received that Mr. Lloyd 
decided to change his original plan and use the photogravure process 
of reproduction. The second distribution, just made, includes Gyro- 
mitra brunnea and Polyporus squamosus. These are not so clear and 
striking as the photographic prints of the first distribution, but are 
still very handsome plates. Mr. Lloyd proposes to reissue the first 
three numbers by the photogravure process, provide descriptive text, 
and thus enable those who choose to bind the series in a uniform 
volume. Mr. A. P. Morgan is sponsor for the accuracy of the deter- 
minations. Although the issue is at present a complimentary distri- 
bution, the work is of so much value that we trust Mr. Lloyd will 
place some copies on sale for the benefit of the less fortunate part of 
the botanical public. 
THE Pflanzenphysiologische Versuche of Oels, which was translated by 
D. T. MacDougal last year,’ has been recast, and now appears from 
the publishing house of Henry Holt & Co. as a new work.?. The boo 
has been made more convenient and more satisfactory for general 
use than its predecessor, by a better arrangement of the subject mat- 
ter, a clearer separation into chapters and paragraphs and the addition 
of titles to both paragraphs and experiments. Some substitutions 
and changes have been made in the illustrations, and also in minor 
features. The work as it now stands well meets the needs of high 
schools and colleges for a laboratory manual for elementary classes in 
vegetable physiology. It is, however, essentially the same work as 
Oels’, and it seems to us that the compiler has scarcely given his chief 
source due credit by the scant acknowledgment in the preface that “the 
general form of Oels’ manual has been retained . . . and a few para- 
graphs of the text have been repeated here without indication of their 
origin.” Scientific men cannot be too scrupulous in this matter. 
1 See review in Bo journal 19: 
2: 341. 
?MacDovaat, D. T.—Ex ri tal pl a i488, illust. 
New York, Henry Holt & Co. 3895: Plant physiology. 8vo. pp. vi+ 
