BOTANICAL GAZETTE. Slo 
local interest as water works are soon to be established with the water supply 
from this source. The free excursion to the Saginaw valley will give the 
botanists a favorable opportunity to see the characteristic flora of Michigan. 
The steamer excursion, after adjournment, to Mackinac island and Sault Ste. 
Marie promises to be one of the most delightful ever offered the association. 
Every botanist who can command the time should certainly go, as the flora of 
that region is characteristic and specially interesting, the trip inexpensive, and 
the social and physical pleasures all that can be desired. The trip may be 
made in three or four days, but more time can be profitably spent. With such 
a favorable prospect it is safe to predict a most enjoyable and successful meet- 
ing, With a fair probability that the botanists will hold their recently gained 
vantage of ten per cent. of the total attendance. 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
Louis Pasteur, His Life and Labors. By his son-in-law. Translated from the 
French by Lady Claud Hamilton. D, Appleton & Co., New York, 1885. 8°, 
. xlii, 300. 
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ure of the snecesses of a remarkable man, a man who does not tolerate failure, 
the glowing account of his devotion to the work of his life, the pertinacity with 
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that sad stroke of paralysis which so nearly cost the hero his life. The silkworm 
disease had gradually reduced the silk industry of France till it yielded barely 
h and prosperity to the silkworm districts, but cam assure he 
a the story is so Saibailaety told that whoever begins it js not likely to lay 
book down before its completion. ; Aies OL I 
4 The other great subjects of Pasteur’s studies—fermentation, studies of wine 
i: beer, splenic fever, fow] cholera, hy obia—are almost equally aie? 
is onl of Bg ; 
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nature of the work. “The casual reader will find few technicalities to detract 
from the smoothness of the tarulive while to the student of bacteriology it ha 
and stimulating. The value of the work is much enhanced by the 
introduction by Professor Tyndall. — 
‘<ro-organisms and Dise Introduction into the Study of Specific Miero-on ganisms. 
By. E. Klein, M. D., ERS. "2d i Macmillan & Co., London, 1885. Small 
- Pp. 201. Illustrated. 
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the English governm ears to conduct such studies. 
: ent for many yea <ehiin 
Work opens With siveoat concise but well written chapters on the examination 
