BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 197 
Dr, CuristrAN Luerssen has been called to the professorship of botany 
at the Forstakademie in Eberswald, to succeed Prof. Dr. Brefeld, who goes to 
Miinster. 
Pror. Dr. Encurr, of Kiel, has been appointed professor of botany and 
director of the botanic garden at Breslau, as successor of Dr. Géppert, recently 
eceased. 
Dr. C. E, Bessry has accepted the position of professor of botany in the 
University of N ebraska, situated at Lincoln, Neb., and has already entered upon 
is duties. 
“Tue Boranrca CLUB was a noticeable feature of the American Associ- 
ation, and the perfection and compactness of its organization called forth much 
favorable comment,” says the American Naturalist. 
Dr. Cuartes TunAsne, of Paris, died on August 21, in the 68th year of 
He illustrated many of the botanical: works of L. R. Tulasne, chief 
among them being the sumptuous work on fungi, Selecta fungorum carpologia. 
INDIA INK, owing to the readiness with which it stays in suspension and 
the absence of all deleterious qualities, is specially adapted to use in studying 
the movements of the lower thallophytes. Attention has recently been called 
to it by M. Léo Ewera. ; : 
. B. Prowriaur has published a list of the fungi of Norfolk, Eng- 
land, which reaches over 1,500 species, a very large number for one county. 
636 of these are Hymenomycetes, 376 Pyrenomycetes, and 85 Uredinew. Specific 
names are used without capitals. ' ; 
BuLLerin No. 3, of the Chemical Division of the department of peer’ 
tureon the “ Northern Sugar Industry,” contains three very poor figures, which, 
it is alleged, show the cell-structure of the stalk, leaf and seed of the sorghum 
plant. The figures are better for what they are than for what they claim to be. 
Prorrssor W. TRELEASE has given a statemetit in Psyche, for September, 
by entomologists to be galls of some cecidomyid larva, generally Cecidomyta 
carbonifera O. S., and has come to the conclusion that they are due to the joint 
influence of the fungus and insect. : 
HE AMERICAN MICROSCOPE is not an instrument for research, that is, not 
for convenient every-day use. The American manufacturers make instruments 
_fer the so-called microscopists, those who are willing to pay a fancy price for 
fancy article. One of the prominent makers of the country told the writer, not 
long Since, that he was working to establish a reputation, and could not afford to 
e otuice the « cheap ” leateumeni desired by some workers. Until the make > 
“sume a different attitude the showing made in the last Science Record, which 
Bives a list of thirty-one prominent investigators, twenty-three of whom use for- 
Gh Microscopes, mostly Zeiss and Hartnack, is not likely to be materially 
changed, , 
