170 BOTANICAL GAZETTE, [ July, 
This is partly the fault of the printer, partly of the engraver, and partly 
of the artist. A judicious weeding out of the bad ones would g 
improve the appearance of the book, and remove the possibility aa giving 
a poor impression at first sight. 
We heartily commend the book to the attention of teachers as one 
likely to prove suitable for class use, and as one which is well up to the 
times, fresh and vigorous. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
R. N. Conr. KINDBERG describes a ae eet from Greece, ¢, 
Iibloied: | in the Rev. Bryologique, No. 3, 1887, 
Dr. P. FatKENBERG has been aye icin of Botany. and 
Director of the Botanical sab ae at Rostock, and Dr. August Gravis 0 
the same offices at Liittich. 
Miss Errig A. Sourawortu, for some time past instructor at Bryn be 
Mawr College, is now —— with the Section of Veerelrs Pathology x 
at Washington, chiefly engaged in microscopical wor ; 
8s HELEN De S. ei BOTT, known to our Seetnis by her ey 
adel has been elected a member of the Philoso; ie 
during the society’s six score years of existence 
Pror. F, L. SaRGENT has been obliged, on ‘Weta of failing er y 
to resign the chair of botany in the University of Wisconsin. His W the 
there is highly spoken of. Prof. C. R. ged — been called to 
ace, 
r. sel 
./URING THE ABSENCE in Europe of Prof. we R. Dudley, of © 
University, who sailed from New York June 25, his classes and 
college duties will be cared for by Mr. F. V. Coville, who has just P 
graduated mon € university with special ote in botany. : 
se yy GREVILLEA for June has the following note under the heading, 
Waste Paper:” “Qur readers should look poor tor another new 
which professes to be a ‘field book for fungus hunters,’ but 1s te 
a hunter for. theie Spare coppers. ‘Please pity the poor blin 
THE FOURTH PART of Th. Fischer’s Bibliotheca. Botanica is a work, 
Dr. Herman Vochting, entitled, “ Die Bildung der Kn come Twod one 
rts are in press, Dr. 8, Dietz, o 
08 te and Dr. Aug. Schenck, on Fossile Pflanzen as 
_ THE SECTION oF VEGETABLE PatHotoay of the Department a. ee 
riculture, under the management of Prof. Scribner, has ma) iste 
fie ae tating Nupiides, especially for the treatment ille, Va nd 
at Vineland. 3 ioe at Fayetteville, N. C., at Charlottesv ee 
HE Socti: MYcoLogique pr France has just published the 
part of its thirdvolume. It is chiefly devoted to ait ace count of ee 
a f 1886, and also has a Paper on edible fungi, with exce 
ustrations, partly photographs an d partly colored plates, and & 
regarding the Discomycetes in an inedited work by Dunal. 
