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232 botanical gazette. [ September, 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Rev. M. J. Berkeley, the distinguished English cryptogamic 

 botanist, is dead. 



Prof. F. H. Knowlton is collecting fossil plants in western New 

 Mexico, Arizona and California. 



A biographical sketch of the late Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach 

 (1823-1889) is published in Journal of Botany (July). 



An account of the botanical work done at the Toronto meeting of 

 the A. A. A. S. will be given in the October Gazette. 



W. W. Calkins has gone on a trip to the mountains of East Tenn- 

 essee, and will not let any lichens slip through his hands while away. 



Professor E. L. Greene spent the summer months in an explora- 

 tion of the forests of Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Washington and 

 California. 



Erwin F. Smith is investigating peach yellows in Michigan, and be- 

 fore his return to Washington will visit the principal peach-growing 

 regions of the east. 



Mr. M. B. Waite is investigating pear blight, especially in its rela- 

 tion to the LeConte industry in the south, under the direction of the 

 section of vegetable pathology. 



In his notes on the synonymy of Cladrastis tinctoria, in a recent 

 number of Garden and Forest, Dr. C. S. Sargent announces his adherence 

 to the principle of the maintenance of the earliest specific name. 



David G. Fairchild, a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural College, 

 and a special student of Dr. Halsted, has been appointed an assistant in the 

 section of vegetable pathology in the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Among short-lived seeds those of some of the willows are remark- 

 able. Woloszozak finds that the seeds of Salix pentandra live only forty- 

 eight days. Wiesner found those of S. purpurea viable for only eighty- 

 five days. 



Dr. Geo. Vasey is making a tour through the we3t for the purpose 

 of selecting sites for several additional grass stations. He will visit Kan- 

 sas, Colorado, California and several other states, returning to Washing- 

 ton about the first of September. 



Frank S. Earle, of Mississippi; Prof. E. S. Goflf, of Madison, Wis. ; 

 and Prof. L. R. Taft, of the Agricultural College of Michigan, have been 

 appointed special agents in the section of vegetable pathology of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. A. Engler has been called to the University of Berlin as pro- 

 fessor of botany and director of the Royal Botanical Gardens. If he ac- 

 cepts, a worthy successor to the distinguished Eichler will have been 

 secured. Dr. Urban has been nominated as assistant director. 



M. V. Fayod contributes a monograph of over 200 pages, entitled 

 Historie naturelle des Agaricin^s, to the Annates des Sci. Nat.(B<>t.). The 

 comparative anatomy and development of these fungi is described at 

 length. A grouping of all the known genera, with descriptions of their 

 characters and critical remark a forms ahnnt. half nf thA mnnnprsinh. 



