1887. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 45 
THE CHRISTMAS meeting of the Indiana L oapetones of Sciences, at 
Indian papolis, Dr. H. W. Wiley presented « valuable paper on the “Causes 
of the Variation of Sucrose in Sorghum,” of which we shall publish an 
abstract an tly 
As APPROPRIATION bill before Congress now reads, the work of 
pant SiadlrelOy of the A gricultural Department will receive about $5,000 
or carrying on the next year’s work, exclusive of salaries. But it may 
yet be cut down. 
A ms HORT AccounT of the life and work of Dr. Georg Winter, editor 
of py ths from the pen of Prof. W. A. Kellerman, is given in the Jour- 
nal of Mycology for January. A full list of his publications, forty-three in 
number, is appended. 
TRUFFLES of edible size have finally been found in the United States. 
= come from Louisiana, and 2 e been identified by Mr. J. B. Ellis 
Tuber niveum (Texfezia leonis T al.. tis i sachs quite common 
ied Natchitoches, and is eaten by the residents 
Huco DE VRIEs suggests, in Nature, a method of preserving such 
colorless stant as Monotropa in alcohol withiont their assuming a brown 
color. “To 100 parts of common strong alcohol add 2 coir of the ordi- 
nary apSrete solution of ny drochiori acid of the 
the peisial in Flora we find that the paging has been so completely ne 
d as to make it Grinenctioatile to state at le = the changes. It is 
J. Brow ae sefares that the membrane commonly known as 
kMotbar of vinegar ” is formed by Bacterium xylinum, n. sp., and not by 
Bacterium aceti, to which it has fet ascribed. The nannies given 
the porpnigee of cellulose, which the bacterium forms from the dextrose 
and other sugars presen 
OTANY is a suitable, aN even very desirable study for young 
men is the tbe hi be reached by Dr. J. F. A. Adams in an aay e in the 
, the new journal of ataeal history for the Agassiz Associa- 
tion, published in Ae ence with Science. He has the Sai of the 
plant srg Sad in m 
AN RNAL, A pire ee! Science, has started with the year, which 
will Soahaees, contain more or less matter of interest to botanists. It 
edited by Charles S. Plumb, of Geneva, N. Y.,and is a monthly of twenty- 
four pages, rated at two dollars per annum. ‘Tt presents an excellent ap- 
pearance, and has articles in =e first number é! aes nals soieuitinth 
connection with Asiatic cholera. riticisms — ate a surprising 
lack of care in the work of ue qeatiewah referred to 
