312 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Aw OrcHip Exutsrtion, under direction of the Royal Horticultural Soci- 
ety, was held in the conservatory at South Kensington, London, on the 12th 
and 13th of May. Sixty-one genera were represented. There were many spec- 
imens shown in fruit and numerous hybrids. Some of these hybrids were bi- 
generic. Three such have been raised and borne flowers, and others have been 
propagated, but have not yet flowered. How these bi-generic crosses will affect 
the stability of genera as at present circumscribed, is a conundrum which was 
propounded but not answered at the Orchid Conference with which the exhibi* 
tion was connected. 
AWR COLLEGE, a new institution for the higher education of wo 
at Marburg, Prof. Reinke at Géttingen and Prof, Schwendener at Berlin. 
turning to this country in 1883 she studied in Prof. Goodale’s laboratory at 
Harvard, also taking charge of the laboratory work of the Harvard Annex. 
In 1884 she was appointed teacher of botany in Smith College, and shortly af- 
ter received her present appointment at Bryn Mawr. She at once sailed for 
Europe to continue her studies under Prof, Schwendener, and will shortly g0 
to Zitrich to remain until the opening of the college in September. The curric- 
ulum of the College is in many respects modeled after that of the Johns Hop- 
kins University. The course drawn up for botany reflects the thought and 
thorough preparation which Miss Gregory has given her subject. 
privileges to besugar the dry crusts of science, and promote that most valuable 
of 
ideas. Neither the scenery i i Arbor sre 
ground, yielding only about 850 species of flowering plants and ferns within 
: ar 
es the usual supply of water plants. An exam ; 
