444 BOTANICAL GAZETTE | DECEMBER I9gOI 
of seventy-five. He was botanist of the State Board of Agriculture of 
Pennsylvania, in charge of the herbarium of the Binladelphin Academy of 
Sciences, and editor of Meehan’s Monthly. 
STEPHEN C. StunTz and Charles E. Allen, of the University of Wiscon- 
sin, spent the month of August and the early part of September in making 
collections and ecological notes of the flora of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, 
They worked chiefly about Rock Harbor, on the south shore of the island. 
Their collections include 480 numbers of spermatophytes, about go of pteri- 
dophytes, 340 of mosses and liverworts, 80 of lichens, and 650 of fungi and 
myxomycetes, 
Bulletin du Jardin Impérial Botanique de St.-Petersbourg is the French 
form of the title of a new Russian botanical journal, three numbers of which 
have appeared, under the editorship of A. Fischer de Waldheim. It is to 
publish original papers, critical reviews, and reports from the Garden. At 
the end of each paper a brief résumé in French or German is given. Prom- 
inent among the contributors to the first three numbers are A. Elenkin, the 
lichenologist, and A. Jaczewski, the mycologist. 
A GENERAL MEETING of botanists will be held at the University of Chi- 
cago on December 31, 1901, and January 1, 1902, in connection with the 
meeting of the American Society of Naturalists and affiliated societies. The 
local committee of arrangements extends an invitation to all botanists, 
whether members of any society or not, to attend the meetings (availing them- 
selves of the guaranteed railroad rate of a fare and one-third on the certifi- 
cate plan), to attend the reception and the annual dinner and to share in all 
provision made for the convenience and pleasure of visiting naturalists. 
Detailed announcements will be sent on request. 
NEARLY TEN years ago the late Professor Thomas A. Williams and Mr. 
David Griffiths, now of Takoma Park, D. C., agreed to issue sets of fungi of 
South Dakota. Later this plan was changed to include the west in general. 
The death of Professor Williams caused an abandonment of the undertaking 
entirely until a recent invoice showed that an unusual amount of very valu- 
able material had been accumulated. It is estimated that there are on hand 
about three centuries of specimens, containing many species recently 
described from South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Arizona. The col- 
lection is rich in species of fungi that have never been distributed in any set 
of exsiccati. Mr. Griffiths, therefore, has determined to put the specimens up 
in packets with printed labels bearing the usual data, and to offer them for 
sale under the title West American Fungi. The original plan contemplated 
issuing fifty-four sets, but a much smaller number will now be put up. One 
century or three may be ordered, to be paid for when issued. The first cen- 
tury will be ready about the middle of December. 
