372 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Tue Brooxvit1e (Inp.) Socrery or Narurat History is a very active 
organization, and has just published its first bulletin. The exogenous flora of 
Franklin county, by O. M. Meyncke, and a list of diatoms, by Dr. E. G. Grahm 
are the papers of botanical interest. , 
Dr. Franxutn B. Hoven, well known in this country and Europe for his 
interest in forestry, died at his home in Lowville, N. Y., June 9, in his sixty- 
third year. He gave considerable attention to phanerogamic botany, one of 
his earlier works being an account of the flora of Lewis county, N. » & 
Dr. FrErHERR VON BRETFELD, recent botanist to the Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station at Halle, Germany, has just accepted the professorship of agricul- 
tural botany at the Polytechnikum at Kiga. He has recently published an 
excellent work of 250 pages on the physiology of plants in relation to agricul- 
ture. : 
THE PRESENCE of nuclei, chromatophores and pyrenoids in several mem- 
bers of the Phycochromacee has been demonstrated by Hansgirg in a paper be- 
fore the German Botanical Society. They occur in the lower members of the 
order, while the higher groups, the Lyngbyec, Calotrichee, and Scytonemee, appeat 
to have none. 
A xist of European Carices, by Dr. H. Christ, published in the “‘ Comptes 
rendus” of the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, shows 151 species, 
grouped under 36 sections. There are 98 species and 21 sections of Hetero- 
stachye; 37 species of Homostachyw; 2 species of Cephalophore ; and 14 spe- 
cies of Monostachye. 
A coMMITTEE has recently been appointed in France to obtain sufficient 
to erect a monument to Pierre Belon, a naturalist of the sixteenth cet 
tury (1517-1564), who did good work for the botany of that day. La Belgi 
Horticole for January and February is largely made up of an account of Pierre 
Belon, his life and works, accompanied by a portrait engraved in the year 1855. 
TH MARRIAGE or Dr. N. L. Britton and Miss Elizabeth @. Knight, of 
New York City, occurred on the 27th of August. Both are well known botan- 
ists, and the fact of their marriage was made known to the Botanical Club of 
the A. A. A. 8. by the chairman as a matter of botanical news. club 
received the announcement with applause, and immediately ordered a congrat- 
ulatory telegram sent to Dr. and Mrs. Britton. 
contributes a paper upon plant coloring. C. Avetta has made an anatomical 
___ Sctence gives an excellent account of the Ann Arbor meeting of the AMS” 
ican Association in its issue of September 11 (40 pp.), each section being = 
ported with great completeness, when the necessarily limited space is considers 
