BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 387 
Pror. J oHN M. Coutrer has been appointed State Botanist of Indiana, a 
position with more of sound than substance, but looking towards better things. 
Dr. XAVER LANDERER, professor of botany at the University of Athens, 
Greece, died July 19. 
es E. Jones, of Salt Lake City, Utah, distributed lately a list of some 
300 species of plants, collected by him during 1884, from Texas to California, 
which he has for sale. 
A PpRGE ILLUSTRATED WoRK on the flora of France, by H. Baillon, is an- 
nounced. It is to be issued in forty or fifty parts, with ten colored plates each. 
The price is moderate. 
Ix THE OctoBER Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, O. Mattirolo presents a 
ll on the development of the seed-coat in the genus Tilia, accompanied by 
three most excellent plates. 
“ affinities of the genus Dionwa Ellis,” 
JoserH F. James hus a paper on 
” in the Journal of the 
a reo “ progress of vegetation in the Ohio valley, 
meinnati Soc. of Nat. Hist. for July. 
WE LEARN FROM THE West American Scientist that the care of the Engel- 
— herbarium, which is to be deposited in the Shaw Botanic Gardens at St. 
Louis, has been offered to Dr. C. C. Parry. 
. —- American Naturawist for October ¢ 
eo ofesser Bessey, of the botanical portion of the A. 
of the proceedings of the Botanical Club. 
ay ProrEssor TRELEASE has recently treated of the 
rry leaves (Ramularia)” and “‘ when the leaves appear 
a of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, 
ransactions of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society. 
_ Dr. C. Roumeauire, editor in chief of the Revue Mycologique, has been made 
I ommander of the Royal Military Order of Christ by His Majesty Don Louis 
oe of Portugal. It is a great and unusual honor to be bestowed upon 2 
‘anist, and one who has devoted his whole life to science. 
THE LAW oF MICHIGAN now requires two bulletins a year from each de- 
eeu of its Agricultural College. Several have already been issued, in- 
eluding one from the botanical department, on “ vitality of seeds,” and one 
from the horticultural department, on “fruits, vegetables and trees.” 
J. G. Baker, is concluded in the 
i a complete, and 
ontains a most excellent resumé, 
A. A. S. at Ann Arbor, 
“spot disease of straw- 
and fall,” in the second 
and of grape rot in 
‘ THE sevENTH FASCICLE of a magnificent work on the forest flora of Cochin- 
China by L. Pierre, director of the botanic garden of Saigon, has just. heen 
sued. The plates ate 40x65 em. and sometimes double. ” — * eos 
hed by the French government, under the auspices of the Minister —— 
‘and the Colonies 
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