8o BOTANICAL GAZETTE [july 



Normal School at Charleston, HI. 



ppointed professor of botany 



Professor Charles E. Bessey, University of Nebraska, on May 14 

 delivered an address on ^'The Place of Linne in Science" before the Botanical 

 Club of the University of Chicago. . 



The University of Upsala, in connection with the commemoration of 

 the bicentenary of Linnaeus, conferred honorary degrees upon W. G. Farlow, 

 William Carruthers, and Francis Darwin. 



Erratum. — Three figures W'ere unfortunately misplaced in Mr. H. D. 



paper on '^ 



Convolvul 



June number. Corrections should be made as follows: For fig. 2, p. 411, 

 i fi'g. 4; for fig. J, p. 412, read fig. 2; and for fig. 4, p. 412, read fig. j. The 



per 



ground 



University of Chicago as a Botanic Garden. It adjoms Washington Park and 

 fronts the Midway Plaisance, and is therefore very near to the botanical labora- 

 tory. It is to be strictly a laborator}' garden, and will very much extend the facili- 

 ties for experimental work. This area will be doubled as the plans develop. 



The herbarium of the University of Chicago has been deposited in the Field 

 Museum of Natural History. It contains the collection brought together by 

 Professor Coulter during the period of his activity in taxonomy. This arrange- 

 ment enables the university to offer facilities for research work in the classifica- 

 tion of the higher plants, and incorporates with the collections of the Field ^luseiun 

 sets and types that will soon be made accessible for study in that admirably 

 managed establishment. 



THE 



can Code of Botanical Nomenclature" is published. It was prepared by the 



American 



after a study of the rules and recommendations adopted by the Vienna Congress 

 of 1905. Exception is taken especially to the failure to 



recojmize 



types 



homonym 



J 



be 



American 

 signing it will not be bound by the ml 



the Vienna Congress; but how far this attitude represents American botanists 

 remains to be seen. The Botanical Gazette, while not in full accord with 

 all the rulings of the Vienna Congress, is decidedly in favor of any international 



win 



American 

 d be con- 

 I be estab- 



lished is international agreement 



