NOTES AND NEWS. 
JuLiEN Depsy, well known for his study of diatoms, died recently in 
London after a long illness. 
Dr. Emit Knosiaucu has become an assistant in the botanical in- 
stitute of the University of Tiibingen. 
_Mr. E. Fiscuer refers Zcidium penicillatum Mill. (Roestelia peni- 
cillata) to Gymnosporangium tremelloides A. Br.t 
A HERBARIUM of five thousand sheets has been presented by Dr. 
J. P. Lotsy to the Women’s College of Baltimore. 
Dr. GuNTHER RitTER BECK voN MannaGEt7Aa has been called _to 
the a.-o. professorship of systematic botany in the University of Vi- 
nna. f 
. M. B. Waite announces in Science that he has discovered a 
remedy for pear blight. He has been investigating the disease for 
Several years. 
HE FIELD MEETING of the Ohio Academy of Sciences was held at 
Sandusky, July znd and 3d, with an attractive series of short excursions 
to collecting localities in the vicinity. 
_THE sum of $250,000 has been subscribed by citizens of New York 
city for a botanic garden, and the city is under obligation to contrib- 
ute $500,000 more. The garden is now assured. It will be located in 
Bronx Park, and occupy 250 acres. 
A NEw jourNaL, Allgemeine botanische Zeitschrift, devoted to sys- 
tematic botany, appeared with the year, under the editorship of A. 
Kneucker of Karlsruhe. It costs six marks per year, consists of at 
least sixteen pages per number, and appears on the 15th of each month. 
ILD PARSNIPS, that is feral plants of Pastinaca sativa, which are 
‘ fh Prof. L. H. 
Pammel (Gard. & For. 8: 228) to be quite harmless. He adduces evi- 
By ORDER of the Secretary of Agriculture, the work of the Division 
of Microscopy, in the United States Department of Agriculture, ceased 
: : d : 
*Hedwigia 34: 1. 1895. 
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