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tising columns, which have never been better filled with what is needed in all 
departments of botanical research, and especially that of bacteria. 
E HAD the pleasure of examining slides prepared at Marpmann’s 
Microscopical Institute, for which Dr. Theodore Hinrichs, of Baltimore, is 
agent, and find them thoroughly satisfactory, although not so elegantly mount- 
ed as those of some American preparers. 
Tur JUNE NUMBER of Drugs and Medicines of N. A. completes the account 
of Hydrastis, and has excellent illustrations of Trollius lars, Coptis trifolia, oeci- 
dentalis and asplenifolia. A wap showing the distribution of C. trifolia and the 
A statue to Linnaeus was recently placed, with much ceremony, in the 
= Humlegarden park at Stockholm, Sweden. It represents him at sixty, medita- 
# ting, holding the Systema Nature and a bunch of flowers. He is surrounded by 
ooudiin female figures representing botany, zoology, medicine and miner- 
Alogy. 
Pror. W. W. Bartey, of Brown University, is to deliver four lectures at 
Narragansett Pier on botanical subjects. The topics announced are “Laurels 
and kindred shrubs,” “Ferns and their allies,” “ Insect relations to plants,” 
“The South county flora.” The first is to be given July 21 and the last Au- 
gust 11, 
Pror. Wa. TRELEASE, of the University of Wisconsin, will, in September, 
take charge of the new school of botany, founded by Mr. Shaw, in connection 
with Washington University at St. Louis. A laboratory is to be equipped at 
‘once, and we understand an assistant is also to be appointed. It is provable 
that the laboratory will, before long, be removed to the splendid sea sro 
ifi- 
have made Mr. Shaw and the city of St. Louis so well known. 
cent gardens, together with the extensive arboretum and greenhouses, will offer 
almost unrivalled facilities for students when @ laboratory, library and herba- 
rium are placed in their midst. We do not doubt that Prof. Trelease will make 
able. 
the school as worthy as its founder's ntentions are commend 
THE TIME approaches for the meeting of 
ga Arbor, Mich., the promise of @ full attendan 
*n answer to a circular every western botanist who u 
ings has signified his intention of being present, a6 We 
. a number from the eastern States. A thorough 
18 already assured. 
Among the subjects that will be prought up at this meeting piss ee nase 
Plant diseases. Papers upon any phase of the subject will be especially 
me 
All botanists are expected to register immediately after registering — 
: sociation, and receive the badge of the Club, which entitles them to its Priv” 
ileges. 
: f the 
An excursion is to be given some afternoon by carriage, to members 0 
