44 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ Feb: 
No more useful legislation has ever been proposed in the United 
States, and the benefits accruing to the agricultural industry and botani- 
cal science, from the establishment of such stations, would be incalcula- 
ble. The provision for original research and the prompt publication of 
results is a most commendable feature, and the bill is worthy of the 
heartiest support. Immense pressure has been brought to bear upon 
Congress, and the friends of the bill confidently expect its passage. In 
this hope the Gazerrr earnestly joins. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. Gorse, of Rostock, will succeed the late Dr. Wigand at Mar- 
burg. 
Dr. 8. A. T. TuELBERG, a Scandinavian botanist, died December 15, 
34 years of age. 
Mr. A. H. Curtiss is editor of the Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower, 
published at Jacksonville, Fla. 
; UDOLF von UECHTRITz, chiefly known for his studies of the Sile- 
sian flora, died November 21 last, at 48 years of age. 
_ Dr. A. F. W. IMPER, formerly connected with the Johns Hop- 
kins University, has just returned to Bonn from a journey in Brazil. 
R. WILLIAM Fawcett, of the Botanical Department, British Mu- 
seum, has been appointed Director of the Jamaica Botanical Gardens. 
N Francisco Loscos y BERNAL, a Spanish botanist who did much 
je oe known the flora of his region, died November, 1886, at the age 
0 
A stuDyY of the microbe of rabbit septicemia by Dr. T. Smith has 
been distributed by the author from the Journal of Comparative Medicine 
and Surgery. 
THE ENUMERATION of North American Hypocreaces by Ellis and 
Everhart comes to a close in the January Journal of Mycology with the 
161st number. 
_ Mr. J. H. Hart, superintendent of the Government Cinchona. plan- 
tation (Jamaica), has been appointed superintendent of the Trinidad 
Botanic Garden. 
HIRCH recommends the addition of lead or barium com- 
pounds to the alcohol used in preserving plants as an efficient method of 
retaining the original colors, 
THER 
at Calcutta. His death was induced by severe work in the botanical 
exploration of Perak. 
Durtne the last ten years between 1100 and 1200 new plants from 
agascar have been described in the Journal of the Linnean Society and 
Journal of Botany. Twenty nine of these are new genera. 
i EDITORS of Notarisia desire to com pile a directory of all writers 
and investigators who give attention to alge. Such will please send their 
addresses to Messrs, De Toni and Levi, 3499 g, Samuele, Venice, Italy. 
Soon TRCEIMY, a well known Indian botanist, recently died 
