282 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Pror. T. C. AncnEr, director of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and 
Art, and well known to American students as the author of a Handbook of 
Economie Botany, died on February 19. 
HEDWIGIA comes to us enlarged, better printed and with a cover, and on 
the whole looking much like an American publication. We do not doubt that 
the high position it has held among cryptogamic journals will be proportion- 
ally advanced by this change. ° 
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University or NeBrRAsKa has mad re 
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dollars for procuring apparatus and collections for its department of botany. I 
is needless to say that with such liberality Prof Bessey will soon have one of 
try. 
the best laboratories in the coun 
AMERICAN AssociATION for the Advancement of Science will hold its 
next meeting at Ann Arbor, Mich., beginning August 26. Special arrange- 
ments for the entertainment of the botanists have already been begun. Let 
those who contemplate attending prepare one or more well digested papers as 2 
contribution to the success of the meeting. 
IN THE LXxxrx. Bande der Sitzb. der k. Akad. d. Wissensch, I. Abth. Miirz. 
Heft. Jahrg. 1884, Prof. E. Hackel of St. Pélten, Austria, describes the follow- 
ing new species of grasses, two of which, from Madagascar, form the proposed 
new genus Pwcilostachys: Aruwndineller stipoides, Arthropogon stipitatus, Andropogon 
Hallit (No. 651 Hall & Harbour Rocky Mt. eoll, 1862.) Stipa Regeliana, Pree- 
ilostachys Hildebrandtii, P. geminata. 
Proressor J. C. ARTHUR has been appointed botanist to the Geolog- 
ical and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, and will conduct the botanical 
survey of the State. This will include a study of the cryptogamic as well as 
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work will extend through several years, and be terminated by the publication 
of final reports corresponding to those of the other departments of the survey- 
In ENGLER’s BOTANISCHEN J AHRBUCHERN (VI. Band 3 Heft. 1885) Prol- 
E. Hackel gives, in a paper of 15 pp., his elaboration of the Graminec collected 
by Dr. Naumann on the Expedition of Her Majesty’s Ship “Gazelle.” Six new 
species, one of which constitutes a new genus—Anadelphia—are proposed, = 
Panicum tabulatum, Chameraphis gracilis, Andropogon superciliatus, Anadelphia ~ 
gata, Agrostis paucinodes, and Chloris pallida, The synonyms given and authori- 
ties quoted together with the numerous critical notes make this paper an especl- 
ally valuable one to Agrostologists, 
Mr. MEEHAN, at a recent meeting of the Philadelphia Academy, displayed 
a specimen of Cypripedium insigne with spicate inflorescence. In addition to 
P 
ee ae ahs it” ie i large one in this case, but surely the 
the merit of accounting for exceedingly rapid evolution. 
