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the need of careful experiments and observations in the sciences underlying ag- 
riculture, and of the direction these should take. In the same report the fol- 
lowing are mentioned among the illustrative collections that such a college re- 
. a botanic garden, forage garden, grain garden, collections of dried 
es, dried grain- producing plants,'5 samples 0 of grains, seeds, fruits and vege- 
Sig a and in wax casts), of woods and of injurious fun ngi. 
ROFESSOR ©, E. Bessey, in a recent bulletin of the Iowa Agricultural 
College, seen of the caatinien | in popular names for the diseases of plants, 
says: “It would be well if the teachers in botany and agriculture in our agri- 
cultural colleges, and the editors of our agricultural papers could come to some 
agreement in the use of popular names, for, until this is done, there will always 
be a great deal of confusion in the reports se comsmnniagsoe which have to 
deal with diseases pee, these ambiguous There can be no doubt of 
the great need of a andard le 8 Deg in a the respect, and some means 
should be devised abi securing it. 
THE NEw Journal of Mealy has been reepived for January and February. 
We confess to some feeling of disappointment in finding so much space occu- 
pied with matter that is not new, and which, in its original form, is quite ac- 
cology ; still age and experience may remedy the present defects. The January 
hum ber aa descriptions of new fungi from lowa and Kansas. The Feb- 
ruary number has an article by Professor Trelease 0 n Heterecismal ae 
and the beginning of an — ition of the North American Cercospore by 
oa Ellis and Everhar 
E Socrere ShRaciis has been founded for the so nt and 
extension of a seguborar of _ fungi, enige-sen? as to r Natura 1 
It is eminently teind that 
mbers; the eas receive the report a the peat 
publication of the society. Addre a Oe secretary, Dr. A. Mougeot . ee 
hi or the editors of this a joel, who will gladly give any ur 
information , 
In 4 PAPER communicated to the American Academy of Arts and pau 
Dr. W. G. Farlow gives the results obtained in sowing the spores of severa 
“pecies of Gymnospor angium on various Pomace. They were not quite satisfac- 
tory, but far more so than those detailed in a former paper on hag dt 
(1880), being due to better methods. The matter of cultures with Uredinee is 
* very simple one, but requires considerable experience to insure success. His 
fonclusions are that the xcidium of G. biseptatum 1s pro abl 4 
— and that of G, ae is poss ably R. aurantiaca, while that of our — 
em ed cedar-app ropus 13, remains uite undecided. In the sam “pe mf 
re notes on several Min tiestlog forms of Chrysomyxa, and the uredo of C. Led 
is distinguished from rhe very similar. Uredo ledicola Pee 
