470° The Botanical Gazette. [October, 
“binding,” and will not agree to subscribe to and act in accord with 
anything that my judgment condemns. I rather think the systematic 
botanists will do the same. The “non-systematic botanists” may join 
together and repeal the Rochester Code, and all the other codes that 
n te me 
n Prem botany, the reform has been virtually accomplished, 
and those who have been using it for some years will hardly turn 
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NOTES AND NEWS. 
Louts Pasteur died at his home near St: Cloud, France, on Satur- 
day, September 28th, in the seventy-third year of his age. 
- Murray has been appointed custodian of the botanical 
pr aah of the British Museum in place of Wm. Carruthers re- 
signed. 
. L. M. UNDERWoop has accepted the chair of biology in the 
Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. He has returned from his 
vacation in Europe, and has already entered upon his new duties. 
THE DEATH oF C. C. BaBINGTON, professor of botany in Cambridge 
University (Eng.) occurred July 22d. e was 86 years of age, and 
ad not been botanically active for more than a score of years. By 
his death this important chair of botany is left vacant. 
- F. ATKINSON notes that Podophylium peltatum is to be 
added to the list of plants having an open style canal leading into the 
Cavity of the ovary. The canal is avery wide and shallow one appear- 
_In cross section as a crescent-shaped or broadly V-shaped slit, 
which lies transversely to the placental line. 
MEINSHAUSEN' has lately published a mono raph of the genus nae 
ganium. He discusses the geographical Geigtdecn and gives severa 
interesting instances of the local occurrence of various forms. Seven- 
teen species are enumerated with iagnoses in Latin. The following 
diagno: : 
are new to science: S. ernerns, simile, Glehnit, subvaginatum, fiacct- 
dum and pusillum.—T. ¥. 
‘K. F. Meinshausen: Genre Sparganium L. Déscription systématique des 
espéces et leur distribution géographique d'aprés les observations nie 
Gouvernement de St. Pétersbourg. Bull. de I’ Acad. imp. d. sc. de St. Péters- 
bourg. N.S. 4: 21-41. 
