310 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Dx. C. Bere has been called to the chair of botany in the University of 
Buenos Ayres. 
A CHAIR OF BACTERIOLOGY is to be established at the college of the Sar- 
bonne at Paris, ; 
A LIFE-SIZE statue of Charles Darwin has just been placed in the great 
hall of the British Museum. ; 
HE FIRST BACTERIA ever seen were observed by Leeuwenhoek in 1683 in 
the white substance adhering to his teeth. ee 
THe SPANISH GOVERNMENT has prohibited inoculation for cholera in dis- 
tricts where the disease has not yet appeared. 
PRoressor V. M. SPALDING, of the University of Michigan, has leave of 
absence for a year’s study in the botanical laboratories of Germany. 
Dr. Grorce M, STERNBERG has gone to Europe at the request of the De- 
partment of State to attend the meeting of the Sanitary Council at Rome, held 
during June, 
PRoFEssor A, N. PRENTIss, of Cornell University, sailed for Europe on 
June 20, to recuperate and make some botanical observations during the sum- 
mer vacation, 
RECENT NUMBERS of the Gardeners’ Chronicle have been almost entirely de- 
voted to orchids, A supplement gives the geographical distribution of all 
known senera, with a map. a 
SMALL BOOK has been published in Germany by Johne on the 
of the cultivation of Koch’s cholera bacillus, and the very similar bacillus 0 : 
Finkler, and has already reached a second edition. : 
T THE RECENT cholera conference at Berlin there was much discussion 
regarding the bacteria connected with the disease, but each disputant appeared 
to hold the same views at the close as at the beginning. ae 
THE BEST worK on the germs in the air with methods of investigation a 
Miquel’s Des organismes vivants de Patmosphere, published in 1883. The autho 
carries on his researches at the Montsouris Observatory near Paris. : 
© OBSERVATIONS of Professor Trelease on the relations of some yore! 
myid larve to parasitic fungi, published last year in Psyche, have been confirm 
and extended by Dr. Fr, 
AN Irarryn investigator, C: Comes, considers that the gummosis of wnul- a 
berry trees is due to the alteration of the starch and young tissues by a spe 
cific form of bacteria, identical, however, with what he believes to be the cause 
of gumming in the peach, cherry, ete, t 
8. Korscurysxy has observed, according to the Botaniches Centralblatt, yee 
the leaves of Lactuea Scariola only assume the meridianal position when it 
ing exposed to strong sunlight, and that Tanacetwn vulgare in the same S1 
