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the indiscriminate use of this term could lead only to confusion. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. H. Baitton died suddenly in Paris on the 18th of July in his 
68th year. 
THE LINNEAN Soctety’s gold medal has this year been awarded to 
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Cohn of Breslau. 
Dr. . VESQUE, the eminent French botanist, died at Vincennes near 
Paris on the 25th of July in his 47th year. 
Mr. Joun DonNELL SMITH intends leaving Baltimore early in Jan- 
uary for a visit to Nicaragua in order to continue his researches on the 
Central American flora. 
In nis series of papers, in Journal de Botanique, on new plants of 
western China, M. A. Frauchet has just described twenty-one new spe- 
cies of Rhododendron. 
KaLia CUNEATA, lost after Michaux’s original discovery, rediscov- 
ered by Mr. W. W. Ashe, of the Geological Survey of North Carolina, 
is fully described in Garden and Forest (Oct. 30). 
. S. NAWASCHIN announces that _/ug/ans cinerea affords a new in- 
stance of chalazal fertilization and must therefore, with Casuarinesz 
and Betulacex, be ranked among the Chalazogama.—Bot. Cent. 53: 
353- 25 S. 1895. 
Dr. Fet1x Hoppe-Sever, professor of physiological chemistry in 
the University of Strassburg, died on August 11th, at the age of 70 
years. He did much to advance the knowledge of vegetable physi- 
ology upon the chemical side. 
Tue Division or Forestry has reprinted in pamphlet form, from 
the last Yearbook of the Department, Mr. Fernow'ss paper entitled 
“Forestry for farmers.” It will be of great service to all those inter- 
ested in the proper handling of forests. 
Tue spECIAL APPARATUS for bacteriological sampling of well waters 
ore the Botanical Club 
described by Prof. H. L. Bolley in a paper 
of the S., in August last, is illustrated, and the paper given In 
full in the Amer. Micros. Journal for October. 
