NOTES AND NEWS. 
In Gardener's Chronicle of August 24th, Lilium Parryi Watson is 
described and figured. 
Ropney H. True, Ph. D. (Leipzig), has been appointed instructor 
in pharmacognostical botany at the University of Wisconsin 
Dr SETCHELL, instructor in botany in Yale University, has 
been appointed to a professorship in botany in the University of Cali- 
fornia 
A SPANISH translation of J. W. Harshberger’s paper on “Maize” 
(Publ. of Univ. Penn.) has been made by Dr. Nicolas Leon of Guada- 
lupe Hidalgo, Mexico. 
IN HIS REVISION of the African species of Eriosema (a genus near 
Rhynchosia) now completed in Jour. Bor, Mr. E. G. Baker enumerates 
forty-nine species, nineteen of which are new. 
Dr. J. E. Humpurey has been appointed lecturer in born 
Johns Hopkins University. - This is a step in the right direction. e€ 
trust the department will be developed as rapidly as funds will per- 
mit. 
_ GAUTIER AND Etarp have separately announced that the core: 
tion of chlorophyll varies. Thus far the differences pointed out “ 
those of widely separated groups of plants, such as grass, spinach, an 
ern. 
Ginn & Co. announce this fall the “Elements of Plant Anatomy, 
by Emily L. Gregory, of Barnard College, and as in preparation 
— School Botany,” by J. Y. Bergen, Jr., of the English high school, 
oston. 
THE CURRENT number (Bull. 9, Part 6, Aug. 26) of Minnesota pena 
zcal Studies is entirely devoted to “A contribution to the bibliography 
of American Algze,” by Josephine E. Tilden. The titles, 1544 in num- 
ber, are arranged by authors. 
THE ATTENTION of botanists is called to the fact that the Ane 
Association table at Woods Hole is equally open to them as to z00l0- 
gists. Up to the present time no botanist has occupied it. Inquiries 
may be addressed to the Director, Dr. C. O. Whitman 
g% : : 
have been offered as a gift to Yale University if the institution will 
urchase the library. We are not informed as to how the offer has 
cen received by the university. 
and collections will not be scatter. 
J Americ . 
who desire to obtain European plants will find it to their advantag 
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